HIPAA refers to the <span>Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. (You can give some background information about the act).
Now, to the main question. T</span><span>he steps a medical assistant can take to ensure HIPPA compliance in handling patient information are outlined as follows
1. Protected Health Information (PHI) should be kept secure and private (either on pass-worded computers or paper files and charts always safely locked up when not in use).
2. Keep strictly to the office policy, and ensure full implementation of laod down procedures. Refresher trainings may also be helpful.
3. Patients should be informed of their rights when their information is being taken and the medical assistant should support those rights.
4. D</span><span>on’t volunteer patient's information to outside companies/entities or allow them access to it, except with the patient's consent.
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<span>Several of the clients at the clinic are preparing to have surgery within the next 2 weeks. they are completing preoperative paperwork today with their visit. what are some of the reasons that people might need to have surgery
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•Cosmetic
• Diagnostic
• Palliative</span>
Answer:
erosion
Explanation:
the process by which soil and rock particles are worn away and moved elsewhere by gravity, or by a moving transport agent; wind, water or ice.
A mental disorder is any disorder that affects the function of the brain making the patient incapable of normal life behavorior. Depression, anxiety, dementia and Schizophrenia are just a few. A mental disorder interrupts the normal function of the brain cause a multitude of issues and conditions. In order for a condition to be labeled mental disorder the condition has to cause dysfunction in the patients life.
