Lesson 2 ECG

HIPAA(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) of 1996

-to provide privacy standards to protect patients confidential health information and medical records

-To make it easier for people to keep their insurance when their employment situation changes.

HIPAA Title 1

Portability requirements that help people keep their health insurance when they lose or change jobs so they don’t have a lapse in coverage.

HIPAA Title 2

Administrative Simplication includes the privacy rule sets standards for the use and disclosure of an individual’s protected health information, including our health status, treatment,and payments for health care.

-gives the patient the right to examine and receive a copy of their health records and to request corrections.

HIPAA Title 3

medical savings accounts provides for deductions for medical insurance.

HIPAA Title 4

Group Health insurance requirements sets for group health plans.

HIPAA Title 5

-Revenue offsets provides company owned life insurance policies.

HITECH(Health, Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act)

updated the HIPAA rule to include protection against identity theft.

HIPAA compliance

Pharmacy and doctor’s office need to make sure that systems are in place to protect your privacy, and personal health information.

Omnibus Rule

Business associates are companies supplying pacemakers, insurance companies, and nursing homes.

Breach

is the disclosing of protected health information without consent of the patient.

Health Information Management(HIM)

is the oversight of patient records to protect them by law.

What are the 3 elements

-must explain the treatments, -lack of coercion(can’t force Kat to treatment),-Competency: can’t give consent if your minor and must gain it from a parent or guardian.

What does Patient code mean?

heart stops

What can a physician do that others can’t?

can only give hemoglobins

Therapeutic Relationship

always communicates in a way that is promoting the patient’s independence, recovery, and strengths.

Congruent Communication

a person’s non-verbal signals are aligned with a person’s verbal communication.

Cognitive: mental skills

knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, recieving phenomena, responding to phenomena, value, organization, internalizing values( a value system that controls their behavior).

Meta communication

emotions are communicated to others not by words, but by gestures and facial expression.

Therapeutic communication

can allow blood pressure and level of stress to decrease.