Are you well aware of HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)? What about its privacy rule? Take this HIPPA privacy rule quiz to test your knowledge and understanding. HIPAA is basically an act that protects people insured by health insurance and constructs favorable rules about storing their personal medical data. If you know about this act or you wish to learn more, this is a perfect practice test. Give this quiz a try to find out your scores. All the best!
Paper
Electronic
The spoken word.
All of the above.
None of the above.
Say nothing. It is none of your business.
Watch the individual involved until you have gathered solid evidence against him or her.
Report your suspicions to your clinical instructor for further follow-up.
Attending physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
Health information managers, information systems staff, and other ancillary personnel only.
Anyone working in the facility.
Only staff that have direct patient contact.
The patient’s (non-attending) physician brother.
Personnel from the hospital the patient transferred from 2 days ago, who is calling to check on the patient.
The respiratory therapy personnel doing an ordered procedure.
A retired physician who is a friend of the family.
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
Contact the neighbor’s spouse to alert him or her about the accident.
Do nothing and pretend you don’t know about it.
Tell the charge nurse in the ER that you know how to reach the patient’s spouse and offer the information if it’s needed.
Go to the patient directly.
Locks on medical records rooms.
Passwords to access computerized records.
Rules that prohibit employees from looking at records unless they have a need to know.
All of the above.
An OK from a doctor.
The need to know.
Permission from Human Resources.
All of the above.
A former physician of the patient who is concerned about the patient.
A colleague who needs information about the patient to provide proper care.
A friend of the patient.
A pharmaceutical salesman who is offering a fee for a list of patients to who he could send a free sample of his product.
A need to know for the performance of your job.
If a physician asks you the diagnosis of the patient
Just because you are curious
You are a relative of the patient.
True
False
They help protect hospitals from lawsuits.
They allow patients to feel comfortable sharing information with their doctors.
They avoid the confusion of having people other than a physician distributing information about a patient.
Both a & b.
Provide him with the information or access he needs.
Ask him who at the hospital has hired him and refer him to that person for assistance.
Call the police.
In most cases, when patient information is going to be shared with anyone for reasons other than treatment, payment, or health care operations.
Upon admission to a hospital
When patient information is to be shared among two or more clinicians
When patient information is used for billing a private insurer
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