Chapter 10, Problem 4TQ

Explanation of Solution

Signed Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) paper:

“Yes”, the user reads the HIPAA paper before signing it.

Justification:

The following information is present about the user and it is described as follows,

• This is the national standard which accesses and handles the medical information.
• In this paper, it describes that the patients are guaranteed to see their own medical records and also has the right to find out the person who accesses this record for the prior six years.
• Patient can also request to send their own confidential information to home rather than offices.
• There is no need of patient name to be presented in the hospital directory instead the patient may choose the person to whom he/she wants to reveal the medical information.
• This signed paper protects all individually identifiable health information and it is a demographic data which stores about past, present or future mental or physical health condition of a patient...