Writen permission for a specific disclosure

Activities that benefit the covered entity (CE)

Ways in which access, use, and disclosure if patient are made

Providers responsibility for protecting health records and other personal and private information from unauthrorized use

Defines this as communication about a product or service that encourage the recepient to purchase or use that product or service

Disclosure by a healthcare organization of information that was created by and recieved from another entity

To be called Protected Health Information (PHI) it must first pass a five-part test

Psychotherapy notes are behavioral notes recorded by mental health professionals who documents or analyze content of private counseling sessions

The Privacy Rule introduced the standard of minimum necessary , a "need to know"filter that applies to limit access to a patient's PHI and to limit the amount of PHI used, disclosed, and requested

A patients agreement that protected health information can be disclosed