Emr Chapter 3

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adverse action

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a decision by an insurance company, such as health or disability insurer, to deny or terminate insurance insurance or to increase rates, usually based on information from a consumer reporting agance.

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anonymity

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the patient's right, which exists to varying degrees, to have private health data collected in a way that can never be linked or traced back to him or her.

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audit trail

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a record that traces a user's electronic footsteps by recording activity and transactions, including unsuccessful attempts to view unauthorized screens, within the EHR system.

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authentication

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the process of determining wheter the person attempting to access a given network or EHR system is authorized to do so. User authentication can include password entry or use of biometric data, (suchs as a digital fingerprint or voice signature), or a smart card.

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authorization

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a document giving a covered entity permission to use protected health information for specified purposess other than treatment, payment, or healthcare operations or to disclose protected health information to a third party specified by the patient.

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confidentiality

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the patient's right and expectation that individually identifiable health information will be kept private and not disclosed without the patient's permission.

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consent

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permission given to a covered entity for uses and disclosures of protected health information for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations.

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consumer reporting agency

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an agency regulated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that sells or cooperatively exchanges consumer information and history in areas such as credit and healthcare.

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coverd entities

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healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare clearing houses that transmit claims electronically.

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disclosure

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giving access to, releasing, or trasferring information to a person or entity not legally or ethically authorized to use or have knowledge of it.

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ethics

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rules and standards of conduct that govern professional behavior and arise from our shared understanding of morality.

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individually identifiable health information (IIHI)

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health information that clearly identifies an individual patient or could reasonably be used to identify the patient .

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laws

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formal, enforceable rules and polices based on community standards of conduct.

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minimum necessary standard

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a key provision of the HIPAA Privacy Rule requiring that disclosures include no more than the minimum necessary amount of information to accomplish a given purpose.

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off-label indication

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a use for a prescription drug other than that for which the U.S. FDA has approved it.

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password

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a sequence of characters and sometimes spaces used to prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of patient information contined in secure electronic files.

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privacy

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the patient's freedom to determine when, how much, and under what circumstances hs or her medical information may be disclosed.

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protected health information (PHI)

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individually identifiable health information that is stored, maintained, or transmitted electronically.

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safeguards

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measures taken to prevent inferference with computer network operations and to avert security breaches involving the unauthorized use, disclosure, modification, erasure, or destuction of protected health information; these measures are specified by the HIPAA Security Rule, which applies only to data in electronic form.

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screensaver

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a program that displays moving text or images on the screen if input such as a keystroke is not received for a given time period.

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secondary use

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a use of health information that is not directly related to patient care.