Disclosure Of Health Information

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Three Groups to which HIPAA Regulations Apply

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Healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses

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Protected Health Information (PHI)

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Any individually identifiable health information

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Identifiable Information

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Data about a specific person

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De-Identified Information

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Information stripped of data that may identify an individual

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Limited Data Set

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Middle ground between identifiable and de-identified information (for example, geographic data; dates relating to an individual; unique identifying numbers, characteristics, or codes other than those listed under individual identifiers)

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Treatment

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The provision of healthcare and related services

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Payment

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The activities of healthcare providers to obtain payment or be reimbursed for their services and the activities of a health plan to obtain premiums, to fulfill their coverage responsibilities and provide benefits under the plan, and to obtain or provide reimbursement for the provision of healthcare

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Healthcare Operations

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Certain administrative, financial, legal, and quality improvement activities of a covered entity that are necessary to run its business and to support the core functions of treatment and payment

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Patient information that's considered confidential

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Patients' room number (in hospital), their diagnosis, the medications they’re taking, treatments, test results and findings

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Confidentiality Exceptions to the Privacy Rule for Other Public Health Activities

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Child abuse/neglect, product or activity regulated by the FDA, persons at risk of contracting or spreading a disease, and workplace medical surveillance (limited)