RKD HIPAA Compliance

What kind of personally identifiable health information is protected by HIPAA privacy rule?

If you suspect a client is violating their facility’s privacy policy by sending us unneeded PHI, you should:

HIPAA security and privacy regulations apply to:

It would be appropriate to release patient information received from a client:

If a person has the ability to access facility of company systems or applications, they have a right to view any information contained in that system or application.

Copies of patient information may be disposed of in any garbage can in the facility.

The criminal penalties for improperly disclosing patient health information can be as high as fines of $250,000 and prison sentences of up to 10 years.

Confidentiality protections cover not just a patient’s health-related information, such as his or her diagnosis, but also other identifying information such as social security number and telephone numbers.

You are working with an excel spreadsheet from a Parkinson’s treatment center with a list of donors and an identifier that indicates if they were a patient of the treatment center. You notice one of the first few names on the list is George Clooney. What are you allowed to do with this information?

You are working with an excel spreadsheet from a Cancer treatment center with a list of donors and an identifier that indicates if they were a patient of the treatment center. You notice one of the first few names on the list is your mother/father along with his street address. You have never been told that your mother/father had cancer. Since you are immediate family you have the right to ask your mother/father about this patient list.

For our clients (health/medical facilities) and RKD, which of the following are some common features designed to protect confidentiality of health information contained in patient medical records?

For our clients (health/medical facilities), what is the standard for accessing patient information?

Patients have a right to access their own health information.

Confidentiality and privacy are important concepts in healthcare because:

You are approached by an individual who tells you that he is here to work on the computers and wants you to open a door for him or point the way to a workstation. How do you respond to this request?