MHA 690 Healthcare Capstone

1. PATIENT PRIVACY
AYODELE SAROMI
HEALTHCARE CAPSTONE
DR. HWANG-JI LU
MAY 8, 2016

2. Protected Health Information
What is consideredProtected Health Information?
Any identifiablehealth information in the form of
media, hard documents, or orally transmitted.
This information can be created by or receivedby a
health care provider, health plan, public health
authority, employer, life insurer, school or university,
or health care clearinghouse; and relates to the past,
present, or future physicalor mental health or
conditionof any individual,the provisionof health
care to an individual, or the past, present, or future
payment for the provisionof health care to an
individual.”
Ex: Names
Addresses
Emails
Social Security Numbers

3. HIPAA
HIPAA stands for the Health InsurancePortability Act.
This is a law of the United States created to protect
patients' medical records and other health information
providedto health care providers.
Examples of HIPAA violations are such as leaving a
patients information out in plain sight of unauthorized
people, sharing health information of patients to other
physicianswithoutthe patients consent first, and
improper means of discardinga patient’s health
information.

4. HOW CAN USE PATIENT HEALTH INFORMATION?
 When referring to patient information as it pertains to
work purposes.
 Computer usage for health information is accepted but
must be monitored at all times during usage and must be
signed off by that person which is authorized after their
usage.
 Health information that is no longer needed must be
disposed properly by approved removal procedures. This
usually involves a “HIPAA waste basket” which does not
allowed confidential information to be accessed by anyone
once it is deposited into the waste basket.

5. References
Wolper, L.F. (2011). Health care administration:
Managing organized delivery systems (5th ed.).
HIPAA ‘Protected Health Information': What Does PHI
Include? (2016) https://www.hipaa.com/hipaa-
protected-health-information-what-does-phi-include/
HHS.gov (2016) http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-
professionals/compliance-enforcement/examples/all-
cases/index.html