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HCAD 650 Midterm Answers / Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration

Quiz

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Question 1 (1 point)

 

The three components of a security program are protecting the privacy of data, ensuring the integrity of data, and ensuring the ________.

Question 1 options:

	A)  security of hardware
	B)  validity of data
	C)  availability of data
	D)  security of data

Question 2 (1 point)

 

Which of the following situations violate a patient’s privacy?

Question 2 options:

	A)  The hospital provides patient names and addresses to a pharmaceutical company to be used in a mass mailing of free drug samples.
	B)  The physician on the quality improvement committee reviews medical records for potential quality problems.
	C)  The hospital sends patients who are scheduled for deliveries information on free childbirth classes.
	D)  The hospital uses aggregate data to determine whether or not to add a new operating room suite.

Question 3 (1 point)

 

A record that has been requested by subpoena duces tecum is currently located at an off-site microfilm company. By contacting the microfilm provider, you learn that the microfilm is ready and the original copy of the record still exists. What legal requirement would compel you to produce the original record for the court?

Question 3 options:

	A)  motion to quash
	B)  subpoena instanter
	C)  best evidence rule
	D)  hearsay rule

Question 4 (1 point)

 

Spoliation is the term that refers to the wrongful destruction of evidence or the failure to preserve property, which addresses which of the following methods of discovery?

Question 4 options:

	A)  interrogatories
	B)  e-discovery
	C)  deposition
	D)  request for admissions

Question 5 (1 point)

 

The patient has the right to control access to his or her health information. This is known as

Question 5 options:

	A)  confidentiality
	B)  security
	C)  privacy
	D)  disclosure

Question 6 (1 point)

 

Intentional threats to security could include

Question 6 options:

	A)  a natural disaster (flood)
	B)  data theft (unauthorized downloading of files).
	C)  human error (data entry error).
	D)  equipment failure (software failure)

Question 7 (1 point)

 

The police came to the HIM Department today and asked that a patient’s right to an accounting of disclosure be suspended for two months. What is the proper response to this request?

Question 7 options:

	A)  “Certainly officer. We will be glad to do that as soon as we have the request in writing.”
	B)  “I’m sorry officer, but privacy regulations do not allow us to do this.”
	C)  “I’m sorry officer but we can only do this for one month.”