Question

1. HIPAA: Stems from the clinical relationship between a patient and those providing health care

True or false

2.Prior to HIPAA Privacy Rule state laws were responsible for the protection of health information.

True or false

3.Increasing demands for access to health information and migration to electronic health records resulted in federal legislation for health information privacy.

True or false

4. HIPAA was designed to protect all health information equally and increase health information privacy and confidentiality.

true or false

5. Significant penalties imposed by HIPAA for the “unauthorized acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of PHI which compromises the security or privacy of such information.” (American recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009).

true or false

Answer 1

Answer 1: True

Rationale: HIPAA has enhances the relationship between the healthcare professionals and patients. It has ensure the safety of privacy of the patient's healthcare information.

Answer 2: True.

Rationale: The sate law regulated the privacy of the healthcare information prior to the implementation of the HIPAA.

Answer 3: True

Rationale: The use of the technology has increases the risk of medical information abuse and also risk of data privacy issues.

Answer 4: True

Rationale: The major concern of the HIPAA is to provide protection to the information of the patient's medical history and treatment procedures.

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