This document discusses employee training on patient confidentiality and privacy requirements. It states that healthcare providers must maintain confidentiality of patient information as required by HIPAA. All staff must be trained on procedures for keeping patient health information private and only accessing the minimum necessary information required to treat patients. HIPAA privacy rules aim to protect patient privacy rights and regulate how healthcare organizations can use and disclose patient health information. Failure to comply with these rules could result in civil or criminal penalties.

1. EMPLOYEE TRAINING

2. Confidentiality protects the amount of a
patient’s personal information that can be
disclosed.
 All staff must maintain the confidentiality of our
patient’s personal information.
 Maintaining the patient’s confidentiality is
important in making sure that sensitive
information is not made available for public use.
 Helps to prevent identity theft.
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3.  Privacy
is a patient right
 As employees we are to maintain the
patient’s right to privacy with respect to
individually identifiable health information
 The patient has the right to decide when
health information should be disclosed
 PRIVACY = CONFIDENTIALITY

4.  This
facility has guidelines for the use and
disclosure of identifiable health information
that is in compliance with the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA)

6.  The
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) issued the Privacy Rule in
order to implement the requirement of the
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act(HIPAA) of 1996. The
Privacy Rule standards addresses the use and
disclosure of individual’s health information
by organizations subject to the Privacy rule
as well as standards for individuals’ privacy
rights to understand and control how their
health information is used.

7.  HIPAA
is a federal regulation that most
healthcare providers have to comply with
that protects the privacy, security, and
confidentiality of a patient’s health
information.

8.  It
is necessary that all healthcare personnel
receive mandatory education on the proper
procedures in regards to confidential
information and how it should be used

9.  Protected
health information (PHI) is
individually identifiable health information
 Identifies the individual where there is a
reasonable basis to believe that the
information can be used to identify the
individual
 Transmitted or maintained in any form or
medium

10.  HIPAA’s
security rules require organizations
that handle electronic health data to utilize
interventions to control access to
confidential health information and to
protect the data against misuse and
compromise.

11.  The
privacy, security, and confidentiality of
patient information is important and it is
important that you know the rules regarding
patient confidentiality.

12.  The
“need to know” is defined as Minimum
Necessary Information.

13.  “need
to know” is when you need
information to;
1. Document the patient’s treatment
2. Facilitate communication between
healthcare providers contributing to the
patient’s care
3. Provide continuity of patient care
4. Provide a basis for review, study, and
evaluation of patient care processes
5. Provide clinical data for approved research,
study and education for legitimate purposes

14. Our
policy also guides us
on, when and where we
can discuss patient
information

15.  Discuss
patient information privately, NEVER
in elevators, lobbies, cafeterias, or hallways
 Make sure that requisitions, forms and
computer screens with patient names and
information are not easily viewed by others.
 Dispose of unnecessary patient information
in proper receptacles for shredding, not
ordinary trash bins.

16.  The
United States Department of Health &
Human Services (HHS) could impose civil
monetary and criminal penalties on a health
care provider that fails to comply with
Privacy Rules requirements.

17.  Mozuraitis,
G. (2011). The limits for
confidentiality of information on the health
status of a patient. Socialiniu Mokslu
Studijos, 3(3)
 Woodward, B. (2001). Confidentiality,
consent and autonomy in the physicianpatient relationship. Health Care Analysis:
HCA, 9(3), 337-351.