Reference no: EM133518619

Questions:

1. Explain the importance of patient confidentiality, ethics, and the physician-patient relationship, as they relate to care provided and positive health care outcomes for patients.
2. Explain the origins of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), including who this federal law applies to, where the law applies, and the relationship between HIPAA and Personal Health Information (PHI).
3. Discuss possible exclusions to the privacy rule within HIPAA , and when, where, how, why, and who is excluded.
4. Discuss the importance of evidence-based outcomes such as audits, risk analysis, and how organizational policies can be used to improve patient confidentiality and patient health care outcomes.
5. Discuss how patients will be informed and educated regarding the organization's privacy practices.
6. Explain the ethical duty of a health care organization to apply HIPAA to protect PHI of patients and medical staff regarding unauthorized access, use, sale, or modification of personal information.
7. Analysis of two evidence-based or national benchmarks that can be enacted to improve patient confidentiality in a hospital setting.