Exam 8: Legislative Aspects of Nursing Informatics: Hitech and Hipaa

What is the name of the legislation put in place to protect shareholders and the public from deceptive accounting practices in organizations?

One of the largest problems with healthcare information security has always been inappropriate use by authorized users. How do HIPAA and the HITECH Act help to curb this problem?

A nurse is explaining the impact of a nationwide electronic health record on nursing to a nursing student. Which statement by the nurse is correct?

The HITECH Act made provisions to include meaningful public input in the development of a national HIT infrastructure. Both the Policy Committee and the Standards Committee established by the HITECH Act hold public meetings, and anyone interested in this process can participate.

Chronic diseases are of major concern to the United States, not only because of the impact they have on individuals, but also because of the tremendous cost associated with providing treatment for patients with these conditions. Adult-onset diabetes, for example, has reached epidemic proportions. A national health information technology infrastructure will help providers better identify those patients who are at risk for developing this disease and provide treatment strategies to avoid it.

A patient is concerned that the medical insurance company will receive personal health information about the patient. The nurse reassures the patient that insurance companies receive information that is related to which of the following?

The HITECH Act had which of the following goals?

How much is spent on health care in the United States per year?

A patient does not want to be identified in the healthcare facility's directory and informs the nurse. Which of the following is an appropriate response by the nurse?

A nurse is collaborating with consumers and other healthcare providers on a recommendation for the exchange of health information as part of the HITECH Act. Which committee is the nurse serving on?

A nurse is learning about the protection of patient privacy in a new electronic health record that is adopted by a healthcare system. The nurse understands that protection of patient privacy in an electronic health record is addressed by which law?

What is the name of the federal legislation in the United States to control how financial institutions handle the private information they collect from individuals?

An informatics nurse is explaining barriers to the adoption of electronic health records to a group of administrators. Which statement by the informatics nurse is correct?

Electronic health record technology will make it easier for all providers involved in a patient's care to readily access that patient's complete and current healthcare record, thereby allowing providers to make well-informed, efficient, and effective decisions about a patient's care at the time those decisions need to be made.

The development and implementation of a nationwide electronic health records system holds great promise for nursing practice and nursing informatics. The profession of nursing will benefit from the many enhancements such an infrastructure has to offer, including the ability to:

Two key pieces of legislation have shaped the nursing informatics landscape-the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009.

A nurse is educating a patient on privacy of health information. The nurse explains that privacy is part of which federal law?

All applications on a mobile device are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Existing accounting rules are enhanced under the HITECH Act, giving patients the right to access their EHR and receive an accounting of all disclosures. Before the HITECH Act, HIPAA regulations provided an exception to the accounting requirements.

The HIPAA privacy requirements, which went into effect on April 14, 2003, limited the release of protected health information without the patient's knowledge and consent.