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CHAPTER 3
privacy,confidentiality,and security
Question | Answer |
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Anonymity | The patient right to have private health data collected in a way that can never be linked or traced back to him or her |
Audit trail | A record that traces a user's electronic footsteps by recording activity and transactions,including unsuccessful attempts to view unauthorized screens, within the EHR system |
Authentication | The process of determining whether the person attempting to access a given network or EHR system is authorized to do so. |
Authorization | a document giving a covered entity permission to use protected health information for specified purposes |
Business associates | A person or entity that person certain function or activities that involve the use or disclosure of protected health information on behalf of a covered entity |
Confidentiality | The obligation of professionals to keep a patient's information in confidence. |
Consent permission | given to a covered entity for uses and disclosure of protected health info for treatment,payment, and healthcare operation |
Consumer reporting agency | An agency regulated by the federal trade commission under the fair credit reporting act that sells or cooperatively exchanges consumer credit info and history |
Covered entities | Healthcare providers,health plans,and healthcare clearinghouses that transmit health info electronically |
Disclosure | Giving access to,releasing,or transferring information to a to a person or entity. |
Ethics | Rules and standards of conduct that govern professional behavior and arise from our shared understanding of morality |
Laws | Formal enforceable rules and policies based on commun |
Minimum necessary standards | a key provision of the HIPAA privacy rule requiring that covered entities limit |
off-label indication | A use for a prescription drug other than that for which the u.s food and drug administrative has approved it. |
password | a sequence of characters and sometimes spaces used to prevent unauthorized access |
privacy | The patient freedom to determine when, how much ,and under what circumstances his or her medical information may be disclosed |
Protected health information (PHI) | individually identifiable health information that is stored maintained or transmitted electronically |
Safeguards | measure taken too prevent interference with computer network operation and to avert security breaches |
Screen saver | A program that display animation image on the screen if input is not received for a given time period |
Secondary use | A use health information that is not directly related to patient care. |