Reference no: EM133430401

Assignment:

Charlotte Prince, HIM director at a small community hospital, has been given the responsibility for providing any accounting of disclosures requested by patients under the HIPAA privacy regulations, including information on required reporting. She first has to determine what items are required reporting under the laws and regulations of her state. She finds that the following items must be reported and determines what departments in her hospital are responsible for the reporting them as shown in the table below.

Item to be Reported	Responsible Hospital Department
Births, fetal deaths	Labor and delivery
Deaths	HIM department
Child or elder abuse	Social services
Notifiable diseases	Infectious disease
Statewide cancer registry	Cancer registry
Trauma	Trauma registry
Medical examiners cases	Risk management

1. Describe the Privacy rule that indicates accounting of disclosures of PHI.

2. Describe two methods the hospital could use for meeting this accounting of disclosures requirement.