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ASSIGNMENT IS BASED OFF OF TRANSCRIPT

Develop a release of patient information compliance checklist (3-4 pages) for hospital staff members to follow. Include an introduction that covers the HIPAA Privacy Rule, proper and improper use of health information, and existing controls to protect patient confidentiality and privacy.

Instructions

In this assessment you will continue on in your new role as a HIM analyst for Valley City Regional Hospital. The director of quality assurance likes the risk report you recently prepared (Assessment 1). Now, he would like you to complete another task.

Other leaders have brought to his attention some concerns about whether hospital staff professionals are consistently complying with privacy requirements. He’d like you to gather information from the hospital’s risk manager about this issue. The Vila Health: Privacy media piece will provide information about the risk manager’s insights. Your task will be to develop a three- to four- page compliance checklist, including an introduction, for the release of patient information for all hospital staff members to follow. You will want to make sure that your checklist specifically addresses the privacy issues the risk manager shared with you.

Be sure your ROI checklist includes all of the following:

• What are the major steps hospital staff members need to follow when releasing patient information?
• How does the HIPAA Privacy Rule apply to each step in the process?
• What are the proper procedures to follow when de-identifying patient information?

Also include an introduction to your checklist. Your introduction needs to address all of the following questions:

• What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule and how does it apply to the ROI process?
• What constitutes proper and improper use of health information?
• What controls does Valley Regional Hospital have in place to protect patient confidentiality and privacy?

Note: As a best practice, consider completing the checklist first. As you write the checklist, you may discover information you want to include in your introduction.