What is the document used to collect and store data for individual patients?
Health Record
Health Records serve what other purpose?
Providing health-services data for public reporting. Protecting the legal interests of the
healthcare organization. Providing clinical data for biomedical research
Who owns the health record?
the provider who created them.
Who owns the health information within the record?
the patient
Data
raw facts
represents facts and doesn't convey meaning
data
data that has been organized to be useful
Information
What type of information is collected by the patient registration staff?
Demographic data
The name of a patient's insurance company and policy number is what type of
data?
Financial data
Personal information about patients such as their names, ages, and addresses is
considered what type of information?
Administrative Data
What type of data relates to the patient's condition and course of treatment?
Clinical Data
Which legal doctrine was established by the Darling v. Charleston Community
Hospital case
of 1965?
Corporate negligence
The process of releasing health record documentation originally created by a
different provider is called
Redisclosure
What type of health record policy dictates how long individual health records
must remain available for authorized use?
retention policies
What should a hospital do when a state law requires more stringent privacy
protection than the federal HIPAA privacy standard?
Comply with both the state law and the HIPAA standard
Which of the following is a voluntary, systematic quality review process that
evaluates the healthcare facility's performance against preestablished, written
criteria?
Accreditation
is the process of granting an organization the right to provide healthcare
services.