What are administrative simplification provisions?
What is Administrative Simplification? The Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA were enacted by Congress to regulate and standardize information exchanges and establish standards for the privacy and security of individually identifiable health information.
What is the most important key to administrative simplification?
multi choice q&A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the single most important key to administrative simplification is standardizing thorough the health ace system a set of transaction standards and code | true |
| you can reveal information need for medical research if | patient authorizes it |
What is Hipaa and why is it important?
HIPAA is there to protect individuals and to ensure everyone has full access to a copy of their personal medical records. It is ultimately a civil rights issue. It mandates data protection for anyone who creates, stores, transmits or uses individually identifiable health information.
Who is protected by Hipaa?
The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically.
Who is not protected by Hipaa?
The Privacy Rule excludes from protected health information employment records that a covered entity maintains in its capacity as an employer and education and certain other records subject to, or defined in, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C.
What info is not protected by Hipaa?
PHI only relates to information on patients or health plan members. It does not include information contained in educational and employment records, that includes health information maintained by a HIPAA covered entity in its capacity as an employer.