THIRD EXAM:

• What do the HIPAA regulations govern regarding privacy?
   
  
• Under the HIPAA privacy regulations, patients must be told what and given the opportunity to do what?
   
  
• When may hospitals use and disclose PHI without a patient's consent?
   
  
• Unless a patient objects, what information may be placed in a hospital directory?
   
  
• What are the provisions related to clergy?
   
  
• Why are the HIPAA privacy regulations considered to establish the minimum acceptable threshold for the use and release of a patient's health information?
   
  
• What are the suggested one-word descriptions of a patient's general condition? What do they mean?
   
  
• How does HIPAA apply to information regarding minor children?
   
  
• When can the hospital release individual information in the directory if the patient is incapacitated or under emergency treatment?
   
  
• What are the University of Michigan Health System's rules regarding media access to patients?
   
  
• Under HIPAA, to whom and for what reason may hospitals disclose patient information in a disaster?
   
  
• What restriction is placed upon releasing information about deaths to the media?
   
  
• Would the fact that a reporter already has information from a police report relax the HIPAA restrictions placed upon the hospital?
   
  
• Under what conditions are EMS and ambulance services covered by HIPAA?
   
  
• What does the HIPAA acronym stand for?
   
  

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