患者隐私保护Privacy Protection for Patients
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• Responsible health care providers and businesses already take many of the kinds of steps required by the regulation to protect patients’ privacy.
The Privacy Law
What is the HIPPA/ Priห้องสมุดไป่ตู้acy Compliance Law?
• HIPPA: stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Passed by Congress in 1996; implemented April 14, 2003
• Defines who is allowed to use patients’ protected health information
Common HIPAA Jargon for Students
• IIHI- Individually Identifiable Health Info • PHI- Protected Health Information • CE- Covered entity • TPO
• It gives patients more control over their health information.
• It sets boundaries on the use and release of health records.
• It establishes appropriate safeguards that health care providers and others must achieve to protect the privacy of health information.
What Does the Privacy Regulation Do? - 2
For patients,
• It means being able to make informed choices when seeking care and reimbursement for care based on how personal health information may be used.
• Although health care providers have a strong tradition of safeguarding private health information, in today’s world, the old system of paper records in locked filing cabinets is not enough.
HIPAA Training: Privacy Protection for Patients
Privacy Training for TUSM students and Visiting Students
Overview by Steve Pauker, M.D. Sara Murray Jordan Professor of
• Adopting clear privacy procedures for the particular practice or facility.
• Training employees so that they understand the privacy procedures.
• Designating an individual to be responsible for seeing that the privacy procedures are adopted and followed.
• It enables patients to find out how their information may be used and what disclosures of their information have been made.
• It generally limits release of information to the minimum reasonably needed for the purpose of the disclosure.
• Up to now, personal health information could be distributed – without either notice or consent – for reasons that have nothing to do with a patient’s medical treatment or a provider’s health care reimbursement.
– TREATMENT – Payment – Operations (healthcare)
• NPP- Notice of Privacy Practices
To Whom Does HIPPA Apply?
• Covered Entity: under HIPAA, this means health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, healthcare providers who transmit any health information
HIPAA Provides Benefits to Patients
• Portability of health insurance • Protects patient privacy • Ensures that everyone who handles
personally identifiable health information(including medical students) is responsible and accountable for protecting the patients’ privacy
• The Privacy Regulation establishes a federal floor of safeguards to protect the confidentiality of medical information. State laws that provide stronger privacy protections will continue to apply over and above the new federal privacy standards.
• When it comes to personal information that moves across hospitals, doctors’ offices, insurers or third party payers, and state lines, the United States has relied on a patchwork of federal and state laws.
– Healthcare providers include all workforce members of hospitals and clinics including medical students
Who Must Comply With the HIPAA?
• Tufts University is a “hybrid entity.” This means that some, but not all, of its functions fall under HIPAA.
• It holds violators accountable, with civil and criminal penalties that can be imposed if they violate patients’ privacy rights.
• And it strikes a balance when public responsibility requires disclosure of some forms of data - for example, to protect public health.
• Protects all health information created by a healthcare provider, health plan or healthcare clearinghouse
• Protects this information no matter how it is transmitted (verbally, electronically or in writing)
• It gives patients the right to examine and obtain a copy of their own health records and request amendments.
What Does the Privacy Regulation Do? -3
• Since medical students see patients and clinical data at covered entities (affiliated clinics and hospitals), medical students are required to comply with the Privacy Regulation.
• Ensures that personal medical information that patients share with health care providers remains private and is protected
Why Is the HIPAA Privacy Regulation Needed?
• Securing patient records containing individually identifiable health information so that they are not readily available to those who do not need them.
Medicine
Goals for this Program
• Understand basic principles of the new Privacy Rule
• Understand your role in protecting patient information
• Know where to go for help if you have a question or have incidentally violated rules
• With information broadly held and transmitted electronically, the Privacy Regulation provides clear standards for all parties regarding protection of personal health information.
What does the Privacy Regulation Do? -1
• The Privacy Regulation for the first time creates national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information.
For the average health care provider, HIPAA requires activities, such as:
• Providing information to patients about their privacy rights and how their information can be used.
The Privacy Law
What is the HIPPA/ Priห้องสมุดไป่ตู้acy Compliance Law?
• HIPPA: stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Passed by Congress in 1996; implemented April 14, 2003
• Defines who is allowed to use patients’ protected health information
Common HIPAA Jargon for Students
• IIHI- Individually Identifiable Health Info • PHI- Protected Health Information • CE- Covered entity • TPO
• It gives patients more control over their health information.
• It sets boundaries on the use and release of health records.
• It establishes appropriate safeguards that health care providers and others must achieve to protect the privacy of health information.
What Does the Privacy Regulation Do? - 2
For patients,
• It means being able to make informed choices when seeking care and reimbursement for care based on how personal health information may be used.
• Although health care providers have a strong tradition of safeguarding private health information, in today’s world, the old system of paper records in locked filing cabinets is not enough.
HIPAA Training: Privacy Protection for Patients
Privacy Training for TUSM students and Visiting Students
Overview by Steve Pauker, M.D. Sara Murray Jordan Professor of
• Adopting clear privacy procedures for the particular practice or facility.
• Training employees so that they understand the privacy procedures.
• Designating an individual to be responsible for seeing that the privacy procedures are adopted and followed.
• It enables patients to find out how their information may be used and what disclosures of their information have been made.
• It generally limits release of information to the minimum reasonably needed for the purpose of the disclosure.
• Up to now, personal health information could be distributed – without either notice or consent – for reasons that have nothing to do with a patient’s medical treatment or a provider’s health care reimbursement.
– TREATMENT – Payment – Operations (healthcare)
• NPP- Notice of Privacy Practices
To Whom Does HIPPA Apply?
• Covered Entity: under HIPAA, this means health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, healthcare providers who transmit any health information
HIPAA Provides Benefits to Patients
• Portability of health insurance • Protects patient privacy • Ensures that everyone who handles
personally identifiable health information(including medical students) is responsible and accountable for protecting the patients’ privacy
• The Privacy Regulation establishes a federal floor of safeguards to protect the confidentiality of medical information. State laws that provide stronger privacy protections will continue to apply over and above the new federal privacy standards.
• When it comes to personal information that moves across hospitals, doctors’ offices, insurers or third party payers, and state lines, the United States has relied on a patchwork of federal and state laws.
– Healthcare providers include all workforce members of hospitals and clinics including medical students
Who Must Comply With the HIPAA?
• Tufts University is a “hybrid entity.” This means that some, but not all, of its functions fall under HIPAA.
• It holds violators accountable, with civil and criminal penalties that can be imposed if they violate patients’ privacy rights.
• And it strikes a balance when public responsibility requires disclosure of some forms of data - for example, to protect public health.
• Protects all health information created by a healthcare provider, health plan or healthcare clearinghouse
• Protects this information no matter how it is transmitted (verbally, electronically or in writing)
• It gives patients the right to examine and obtain a copy of their own health records and request amendments.
What Does the Privacy Regulation Do? -3
• Since medical students see patients and clinical data at covered entities (affiliated clinics and hospitals), medical students are required to comply with the Privacy Regulation.
• Ensures that personal medical information that patients share with health care providers remains private and is protected
Why Is the HIPAA Privacy Regulation Needed?
• Securing patient records containing individually identifiable health information so that they are not readily available to those who do not need them.
Medicine
Goals for this Program
• Understand basic principles of the new Privacy Rule
• Understand your role in protecting patient information
• Know where to go for help if you have a question or have incidentally violated rules
• With information broadly held and transmitted electronically, the Privacy Regulation provides clear standards for all parties regarding protection of personal health information.
What does the Privacy Regulation Do? -1
• The Privacy Regulation for the first time creates national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information.
For the average health care provider, HIPAA requires activities, such as:
• Providing information to patients about their privacy rights and how their information can be used.