HIPAA Standards
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
required the department of health and human services to establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health plans and employers; also addressed the security and privacy of health data
Federal law enacted to protect the privacy of a patient's personal and health information; provide for electronic and physical security of personal and health information; standardize coding to simplify billing and other transactions
What patient information must be protected? All personal and health information that exists for every individual in any form; written, spoken and electronic
This information is considered to be protected health information
Examples of PHI; name, address, birth date, phone and fax numbers, email addresses and other social security numbers; medical records, diagnosis, x-rays, photos, prescriptions, laboratory and other test results; billing records, claim data and referral authorizations
Does HIPAA affect me? If you see, use or share a person's PHI; if you work directly with patients; then HIPAA affects you and the way you do your job
HIPAA practices; only look at a person's PHI if you need it to do your job, only use a person's PHI if you need it to do your job, only give a person's PHI to someone else if it is necessary for them to do their job, only talk to others about a person's PHI if it is necessary to do your job
What's so important about protecting a patient's privacy and security; it's ethical and legal; hipaa law requires it and affords stiff punishments to those that violate it
What kind of penalties? loss of job, fines, jail term up to ten years
Who is responsible to protect PHI? We all have a responsibility to protect the PHI of patients
www.dol.gov
required the department of health and human services to establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health plans and employers; also addressed the security and privacy of health data
Federal law enacted to protect the privacy of a patient's personal and health information; provide for electronic and physical security of personal and health information; standardize coding to simplify billing and other transactions
What patient information must be protected? All personal and health information that exists for every individual in any form; written, spoken and electronic
This information is considered to be protected health information
Examples of PHI; name, address, birth date, phone and fax numbers, email addresses and other social security numbers; medical records, diagnosis, x-rays, photos, prescriptions, laboratory and other test results; billing records, claim data and referral authorizations
Does HIPAA affect me? If you see, use or share a person's PHI; if you work directly with patients; then HIPAA affects you and the way you do your job
HIPAA practices; only look at a person's PHI if you need it to do your job, only use a person's PHI if you need it to do your job, only give a person's PHI to someone else if it is necessary for them to do their job, only talk to others about a person's PHI if it is necessary to do your job
What's so important about protecting a patient's privacy and security; it's ethical and legal; hipaa law requires it and affords stiff punishments to those that violate it
What kind of penalties? loss of job, fines, jail term up to ten years
Who is responsible to protect PHI? We all have a responsibility to protect the PHI of patients
www.dol.gov