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Is your healthcare information
private? Understanding HIPAA
WASHINGTON (HIPAA Wire) The DHHS' Office
of Civil Rights (OCR), the
agency responsible for enforcing HIPAA, has developed a Web-based quiz
using PowerPoint slides that aims to educate the public regarding the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The quiz, which the OCR matter-of-factly refers to as "The Top
15 Privacy Concerns," consists of 15 true or false questions presented
with PowerPoint slides. Sample questions include:
1. "The privacy rule will create a government database with all
individual's personal health information";
2. "The privacy rule prevents my pharmacist from filling my
prescription before I show up and sign that consent. Now, instead of
having the prescription waiting for me, I'll have to come to the
pharmacy, sign a consent, and then wait around for hours while the
prescription is filled"; and
3. "The privacy rule prevents me from using a sign-in sheet so
I can know when a patient has arrived. I can't even call out the names
of patients in the waiting room when its [sic] their turn for their
appointment."
The questions are followed by answers and brief explanations.
To take the quiz, go to:
www.regreform.hhs.gov/hipaaquiz_0204171/sld001.htm
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