A Day in the Life of a Patient: A HIPAA Review

Follow a patient from admission to discharge, stopping along the way to see how everyone in a hospital, including the patient, is affected by HIPAA.

Estimated course completion time: 30 minutes.

Learning Objectives:

After this program, you’ll be able to:

• Identify the purpose of the Notice of Privacy Practices and authorization forms.
• Identify a situation where the minimum necessary rule would be applied.
• Recognize why a patient would invoke the right to request a confidential communication.
• Identify one circumstance under which a hospital may share a patient’s medical record without the patient’s authorization.
• Recognize what is meant in the context of HIPAA by incidental disclosures.
• Recognize the obligations of a hospital business associate organization with regard to patient protected health information.

General Program Information