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2060 ch4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Of the following, which gives patients the right to withhold information about privately funded health treatments from health insurance providers. | Privacy Rule |
| A patient finds that some hospital employees were given unauthorized access to their medical records. This is not a breach of confidentiality since the employee works for the hospital. | FALSE |
| HIPAA has shaped the major structural aspects of cancer reporting across the United States. | FALSE |
| What requires safeguards to PHI and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures of PHI without authorization? | Privacy rule |
| A registrar who performs abstracting and reporting for a facility as an independent contractor is considered a: | Business associate |
| The act that is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is: | HITECH |
| A central registry that performs abstracting on behalf of a reporting facility to facilitate cancer reporting is doing so as a: | Business associate |
| Which of the following is considered derivative work product and not typically subject to discovery (subpoena)? | Cancer registry abstract |
| Of the following, which specifies safeguards that covered entities and their business associates must implement to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information? | Security rule |
| One of the first federal laws to provide specific, statutory protection for patient privacy is: | FERPA |
| The scrambling of protected data both of stored information and transmitted information that can only be viewed after the using an appropriate key is called: | Encryption |
| A central cancer registry operating under a state statute interacts with a reporting facility based on its: | Statutory authority |
| Violating the NCRA Professional Practice Code of Ethics can result in: | Ineligibility to be nominated for or elected to an association office Suspension of NCRA membership Revocation of ODS credential All the above |
| This group is responsible for enforcing both the Privacy Rule and Security Rule. | Office of civil rights OCR |
| Which federal law impacts the work of cancer registrars in their everyday work and governs how protected health information may be used, by whom, and for what purpose. | HIPAA |
| The HIPAA Security Rule outlines the security safeguards for administrative, physical, and technical categories. | TRUE |
| Cancer reporting to registries is considered a: | Public health activity |
| The legal responsibility of a person that involves the avoidance of behavior, as well as errors or omissions in one’s conduct, that could foreseeably cause harm to the person or to others is: | Duty of care |
| Generally, the performance of an audit by a central cancer registry operating under a state mandate does not involve a relationship between a covered entity and a business associate of that entity. | TRUE |
| The consequences for a cancer registrar not complying with employer, state, and federal regulations regarding legal and ethical responsibilities may include: | Personal liability Release from employment Loss of Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) credential All of the above |
| The HIPAA Privacy Rule does not allow for public-health activities. | FALSE |
| Which federal law protects consumers of financial institutions from unknown or deceptive use of their federal personal financial information and opportunity to opt out of certain disclosure practices? | Gramm-Leach-Biley Act of 1999 |
| If a health care organization fails to perform its duty of care, the patient may seek legal compensation based on: | Civil negligence |
| Safeguards that covered entities and their business associates must implement to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and available electronic PHI are: | Security Rules |
| A central registry that has an obligation to collect data from sources that may otherwise fail to report cancer cases in a timely, complete, and/or accurate manner is doing so as a: | Statutory Authority |