Question

1. HIPAA’s Privacy Rule is a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information. As with most regulations, there are exceptions to the rule. Identify 3 exceptions and/or situations that to the privacy rule and explain why each fall under the exception category.

2 Define the HITECH Act, and describe what is referred to as Meaningful Use under this act. Also identify a minimum of 3 nationally rated medical practice systems and specify the features that attribute to the high ratings.

Answer 1

1. HIPAA’s Privacy Rule is a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information. As with most regulations, there are exceptions to the rule. Identify 3 exceptions and/or situations that to the privacy rule and explain why each fall under the exception category.

Any covered entity can disclose the information without authorization to other uncovered providers for facilitation of:

• Patients’ treatment: It is for saving patients life, thus physicians should be provided patient history.
• Providers’ payment: The receipt confirming dispensing of medication and performance of test etc. should be made available for reimbursement of services from coverage agencies.
• Healthcare operations: It is for quality checks, medical examiners, mandated by law, research that could enhance health, for supervision and surveillance for smooth and safe functioning of hospitals.

Source:

https://www.universalclass.com/articles/medicine/exceptions-to-the-hipaa-privacy-policy.htm

2 Define the HITECH Act, and describe what is referred to as Meaningful Use under this act. Also identify a minimum of 3 nationally rated medical practice systems and specify the features that attribute to the high ratings.

The HITECH Act 2009 (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) is the intended blueprint that delineates the institution if electronic health records and technology in US healthcare system that can be measured quantitatively and qualitatively.

Meaningful use implies that health care provider exhibit that they have employed EHR technology having proper certification and its usefulness can be metricized quantitatively and qualitatively.

Medical practice management software help in organization of billing and patient appointments. It helps in facilitation of insurance and its relate payments through patient portals.

They help in

• Medical Billing and Collections Software
• Patient Scheduling Software
• Practice Management Software

The best in market are: Advanced MD, AllscriptsPM, AltaPoint