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What is the best evidence rule
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When originals are still available, they must be produced.
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What is authentication
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The ability to identify the author of a record or the person who entered the record into a computer system.
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The hearsay rule
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The hearsay rule bars legal admissibility of evidence that is not the personal knowledge of the witness
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What is the FOIA
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Freedom of information act. It became law in 1966.
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Who owns the health record
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The health facility owns the record itself. However, the patient has rights to the information within the record.
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True or False: A drug abuse or alcoholic medical record cannot be redisclosed
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True
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An example of interagency disclosures for alcohol & drug abuse records
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Food & Drug Administration, research, medicare or medicaide audits
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Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule allow PHI to be disclosed for treatment purposes!
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Yes! Internally for treatment purposes without specific patient authorizations
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Patient's are granting permission for anyone in the facility to review their records
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False
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Medicare's Conditions of Participation requires that!
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Requires the transfer of relevant patient information on direct transfer of a patient from a hospital to a nursing facility
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Does HIPAA allow PHI to be disclosed for health care information purposes without the consent of the patient?
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Yes! Members of the medical & professional staff may have access for this purpose.
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True or False
HIPAA privacy rule permits outside students to be considered as part of the organization's workforce and treated as an employee for the purposes for information access!
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True
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The educational use of a record is like qualtiy management! An impersonal use
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True
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Teaching tools such as case summaries, test results, photographs, surgical videos, should not identify the patient?
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True - unless authorization to do so is obtained.
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IRB - Institutional Review Board ususally reviews request for patient information.
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True - a review board that reviews proposed methods and request for PHI. HIPAA has rules to guide this process
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