Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health
Information Management Chapter 9 HIM
250 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
De-identified health information - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Health information that is
stripped of all identifiers
Emancipation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The legal ability of a minor to act an an adult
when he or she has moved away from home and receives no support from his or her parents
Ethical guidelines - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Standards of conduct issued by professional
organizations to guide their members' future course of action. These standards are sometimes
used to establish the standard of care...
Express consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The verbal or written consent of a patient to
receive diagnostic or therapeutic treatment or procedures
Implied consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The patient's consent to receive diagnostic or
therapeutic treatment or procedures without expressing verbal or written action by the patient;
often existing in situations in which a patient...
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The legal doctrine that requires the health-
care provider to disclose information to the patient about treatment options and risks so that
the patient may knowledgeably consent to ...
Open record statutes - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Statutory provisions that address
confidentiality requirements using a presumption of disclosure of information upon request,
absent statutory exemption.
Privacy statutes - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Laws that generally correspond with the
principles found in the federal Privacy act: a presumption of confidentiality that may be
rebutted with evidence of patient authorization....
, Professional disclosure standard - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A standard used in the
negligence context to determine liability. It is measured according to the level of information
a reasonable health-care provider would disclose under the ....
Reasonable patient standard - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A standard used in the negligence
context to determine liability. It is measured according to the level of information a
reasonable health-care provider would disclose under the ....
Substituted consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The legal doctrine that allows an
authorized person to consent to or forgo treatment on the patient's behalf when the patient is
not legally competent to provide consent
Implied or tacit consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The patient's consent to receive
diagnostic or therapeutic treatment or procedures without expressing verbal or written action
by the patient; often existing in situations in which a patient....
Advance directives: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅are defined as written instructions
recognized under state law, such as living wills or durable powers of attorney for health care,
that relate to the kind of health care the patient wishes to have or not have when
incapacitated.
De-identified health information - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Health information that is
stripped of all identifiers
Durable power of attorney - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a document that allows a competent
patient to name someone else to make health care decisions in the event the patient becomes
incapacitated or unable to make personal decisions.
Professional disclosure standard - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅measures what a reasonable
health care provider under the same or similar circumstances would disclose.
Compare and contrast confidentiality and privacy. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Both deal
with patient-specific health information. Privacy refers to the right to control information or
the right to be left alone. In the health-care context, it refers to the right of the patient to
control information. Privacy is an inward-looking activity engaged in by the patient.
Confidentiality refers to the obligation of the health-care provider to protect patient-specific
Information Management Chapter 9 HIM
250 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
De-identified health information - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Health information that is
stripped of all identifiers
Emancipation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The legal ability of a minor to act an an adult
when he or she has moved away from home and receives no support from his or her parents
Ethical guidelines - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Standards of conduct issued by professional
organizations to guide their members' future course of action. These standards are sometimes
used to establish the standard of care...
Express consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The verbal or written consent of a patient to
receive diagnostic or therapeutic treatment or procedures
Implied consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The patient's consent to receive diagnostic or
therapeutic treatment or procedures without expressing verbal or written action by the patient;
often existing in situations in which a patient...
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The legal doctrine that requires the health-
care provider to disclose information to the patient about treatment options and risks so that
the patient may knowledgeably consent to ...
Open record statutes - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Statutory provisions that address
confidentiality requirements using a presumption of disclosure of information upon request,
absent statutory exemption.
Privacy statutes - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Laws that generally correspond with the
principles found in the federal Privacy act: a presumption of confidentiality that may be
rebutted with evidence of patient authorization....
, Professional disclosure standard - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A standard used in the
negligence context to determine liability. It is measured according to the level of information
a reasonable health-care provider would disclose under the ....
Reasonable patient standard - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A standard used in the negligence
context to determine liability. It is measured according to the level of information a
reasonable health-care provider would disclose under the ....
Substituted consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The legal doctrine that allows an
authorized person to consent to or forgo treatment on the patient's behalf when the patient is
not legally competent to provide consent
Implied or tacit consent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The patient's consent to receive
diagnostic or therapeutic treatment or procedures without expressing verbal or written action
by the patient; often existing in situations in which a patient....
Advance directives: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅are defined as written instructions
recognized under state law, such as living wills or durable powers of attorney for health care,
that relate to the kind of health care the patient wishes to have or not have when
incapacitated.
De-identified health information - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Health information that is
stripped of all identifiers
Durable power of attorney - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a document that allows a competent
patient to name someone else to make health care decisions in the event the patient becomes
incapacitated or unable to make personal decisions.
Professional disclosure standard - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅measures what a reasonable
health care provider under the same or similar circumstances would disclose.
Compare and contrast confidentiality and privacy. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Both deal
with patient-specific health information. Privacy refers to the right to control information or
the right to be left alone. In the health-care context, it refers to the right of the patient to
control information. Privacy is an inward-looking activity engaged in by the patient.
Confidentiality refers to the obligation of the health-care provider to protect patient-specific
