Chapter 21 - Ethical Issues in Health Informations Management

HITT, Ch 21 Ethical Issues in Health Informatics Management

The legal term for “First do not harm” is which of the following?

Nonmaleficence

What organization was established to help provide equality for minority groups, women, people with disabilities, and veterans?

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

What is one assessing when addressing how one views language, communication style, belief systems, customs, attitudes, perception, and values?

Personal cultural competence

To refuse to participate in or conceal unethical practices or procedures and report such practices is a principle and guidelines to what?

AHIMA Code of Ethics

If a patient notices an unknown item in the explanation of benefits they receive from an insurance company and they do not recognize the service being paid for, the patient should ___.

Contact the insurer and the provider who billed for the services to correct the information

If a patient receives a ____ from a healthcare organisation it indicates that the patient’s protected health information was involved in a data breach.

Receipt of Breach of Notice

____ is the fraudulent use of an individual’s identifying information in a healthcare setting.

Medical identity theft

The HIM department is involved in the ____ process by making the health records of patients enrolled in a research study available to external monitors and auditors

IRB

Healthcare professionals are trained in the ethical issues related to what systems because staff may have access to more information than what is needed for their job?

EHR

What is the committee of the organization tasked with reviewing ethics violations and determining the course of action required to remedy the violations.

Ethics Committee

The classification of people based on national origin or culture is called what?

Ethnicity

It is not the responsibility of an HIM professional to ensure patient documentation is accurate, timely, and created by authorized parties.

FALSE

According to the Standards of Ethical Coding, Coders apply accurate, complete and consistent coding practices for the production of high-quality healthcare data.

FALSE

Report all healthcare ____ required for external reporting purposes completely and accurately, in accordance with regulatory and documentation standards, and requirements and applicable official coding conventions, rules, and guidelines

Data elements