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Test your HIPAA knowledge

HIM Connection, June 1, 2004

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HIPAA privacy should be old hat to you by now-and the security rule slated for next April is just around the corner. Warm up for the next HIPAA deadline, and review your rock-solid privacy rule knowledge with these five questions:

1. A man comes into your facility. He tells you that he is supposed to work on the computers and wants you to open a door for him or point the way to a workstation. How should you respond to this request?

a. Provide him with the information or access he needs.
b. Ask him who at the organization hired him and find that person for assistance.
c. Call the police.
d. None of the above.

2. Your sister's friend just had triple bypass surgery at your facility. Your sister asks you to find out his prognosis. What should you do?

a. Ask a nurse on the floor how the patient is doing and pass the information along to your sister.
b. Log in to the computerized record system and read the patient's record to find information for your sister.
c. Explain that it's a violation of the patient's privacy for you to ask around or look at his record, and suggest that she call one of her friend's family members.
d. None of the above.

3. Under what circumstances are you free to repeat to others PHI that you hear on the job?

a. After you no longer work at the organization.
b. After a patient dies.
c. Only if you know the patient won't mind.
d. When your job requires it.

4. Which of the following are common features designed to protect confidentiality of health information contained in patient medical records?

a. Locks on medical records rooms
b. Passwords to gain access to computerized records
c. Rules that prohibit employees from looking at records unless they have a need to know
d. All of the above

5. If a facility denies a patient's request for an amendment to his or her record, what must be included in the denial?

a. The reason for the denial
b. An explanation of how the patient can file a written statement disagreeing with the denial
c. A description of how the patient may complain to the facility or the Department of Health and Human Services
d. All of the above

Check below to see how you fared on this week's HIPAA quiz.

Answers:

1. b
2. c
3. d
4. d
5. d

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