Question

Check each activity listed below that is permitted by hipaa without authorization. what is the understood provision in each permitted case?

Answer 1

There are 6 permissions of HIPAA
1) Disclosures to patients
2) Use/disclose treatment, options and payments
3) Use/disclose agree or object
4) Use/disclose in accident without authorization from patient
5) Public interests 
6) Limited data

Answer 2

Answer and Explanation

HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a Federal law that required the establishment of national standards to protect the privacy of patients' health care information. The main purpose of this federal statute was to help consumers maintain their insurance coverage, but it also includes a separate set of provisions called Administrative Simplification

• Disclosures to patients -Both state that ethics requires physicians to disclose medical errors to patients. It is only through full disclosure is a patient able to make informed decisions regarding future medical care.
• Use/Disclosure for treatment, payment, or health care operations - it is to Use or disclose protected health information for its own treatment, payment, and health care operations activities
• Uses and disclosures with opportunity to agree or object -There should be Limited uses and disclosures when the individual is not present
• Incidental uses and disclosures or PHI are permitted without authorization from patients -An incidental use or disclosure is a secondary use or disclosure that cannot reasonably be prevented, is limited in nature, and that occurs as a result of another use or disclosure that is permitted by the Rule.
• Public interests and benefit activities -he HIPAA Privacy Rule permits use and disclosure of PHI, without an individual's authorization or permission
• Limited data set-This refers to the health, or health care operations, without obtaining either an individual's Authorization or a waiver or an alteration of Authorization for its use and disclosure.