Unit Outcomes assessed in this assignment:
Discuss the issues surrounding ownership and control of health information.
Contrast access and disclosure rights between adults, incompetent adults, and minors.
Explain the access and disclosure rights of employers, employees, and other members of the workforce.
Compare access and disclosure issues related to highly sensitive health information.
Describe the access, request, and disclosure laws and concern for a variety of situations related to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of health records and information.
Summarize the issues related to managing the release of information.
Describe the four elements of the HIPAA Privacy Rule that relate to required reporting laws.
Identify the HIPAA exceptions that allow the release of health information without patient authorization.
Discuss the common state reporting requirements related to abuse and neglect of children, elderly people, and people with disabilities.
Course Outcomes assessed in this assignment:
HI135-4: Apply HIPAA security rules and regulations.
BSHIM: II.1 Recommend privacy strategies for health information.
BSHIM: V.1 Comply with legal processes impacting health information.
AAS-HIT: I.2 Apply policies, regulations, and standards to the management of information.
Instructions:
The CEO of a healthcare facility has asked you to develop a diversity awareness training program for employees of the hospital as it pertains to the legal and ethical implications of health information.
You will create a PowerPoint® presentation discussing the rights and obligations of the healthcare workforce regarding access and disclosure of health information and summarizing the issues related to managing the release of information. You will complete the PowerPoint by outlining thoroughly researched responses, based on this module’s reading, to the following questions/topics:
Who owns the patient’s health record?
What are access and disclosure rights of competent and incompetent adults?
When are minors allowed to authorize access or disclosure of their own health information?
How is sensitive information related to behavioral health, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, adoption, STDs, and other communicable diseases and genetics protected from unauthorized access and disclosure?
What does the legal concept of “duty to warn” refer to and how does it relate to the issue of disclosure of patient information?
What must a healthcare provider do to ensure proper release of patient information?
Evaluate the possible assumptions, biases, and stereotypes that relate to disease conditions.
Assignment Requirements:
Your PowerPoint assignment should answer the questions listed above. The presentation you create will be used as a diversity awareness aid for employees at your facility.
Your PowerPoint presentation should contain a minimum of 7 informational slides (at least one per question) plus title and references slides.
Your presentation should contain informative and interesting images and feature a font no smaller than 20 point.
Include a title slide and reference slide. Be sure to use APA citations on the slides, in addition to the reference slide, to attribute each source.
Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.
Save your presentation as a Microsoft PowerPoint.PPTX file, and submit it to the assignment Dropbox for grading.
