The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law that governs patient privacy and the confidentiality of sensitive medical information. Because HIPAA affects everyone in a medical practice, your boss has asked you to prepare a short document for the staff about HIPAA.
o What is HIPAA?
o What are 2 major rules of HIPAA that deal with privacy?
o How can HIPAA affect the way a company does business?
o What are some ways to protect patient information so that the practice is HIPAA compliant?
While working the front desk at your medical office, a patient came in and started asking you several questions regarding the privacy of his records in accordance to The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
o What rights do I have regarding my medical information?
o How do you correct or amend the patient record?
o Can I request restrictions on use?
o Who owns the medical records?
o I heard someone mention JCAHO on the way out, does that have to do with my medical records? If not what is it?