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Test your HIPAA knowledge, part II

HIM Connection, June 8, 2004

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Last week we brought you the first half of a 10-question quiz to find out whether you make the grade when it comes to patient privacy. Use the following five questions in the second part of this exercise to test your staff's (and your own) HIPAA know-how:

1. Which of the following does NOT have to be included in an accounting of disclosures?

a. Releases of the record for research purposes

b. Uses of the record by the doctors and nurses treating the
patient

c. Releases authorized by the patient

d. All of the above

2. When is the patient's authorization to release information required?

a. In most cases in which patient information is going to be shared with anyone for reasons other than treatment, payment, or healthcare operations

b. Upon admission to a hospital

c. When patient information is to be shared among two or more clinicians

d. When patient information is used for billing a private insurer

3. You are returning to the HIM department when you hear that a neighbor has just arrived in the ER for treatment after a car crash. What should you do?

a. Contact the neighbor's spouse to alert him or her about the accident

b. Try to find out how serious you neighbor's condition is.

c. Tell the charge nurse in the ER that you how to reach the patient's spouse and can offer the information if it's needed.

d. Both a and b.

4. Which of the following is PHI under HIPAA?

a. The patient's address

b. The patient's allergies

c. The patient's medical record number

d. All of the above

5. Which of the following types of information does HIPAA's privacy rule protect?

a. Patient information in electronic form

b. Patient information communicated orally

c. Patient information in paper form

d. All of the above

Please see the answers below. This week's excerpt is adapted from the HIPAA Training Handbook for HIM Staff. Click here to order.

Answers:

1. d

2. a

3. c

4. d

5. d

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