Hippa "Project"

On August 21, 1996 a new law was signed called the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act of 1996, which is abbreviated as HIPPA. There are two sections to the Act, Title I focus on protecting health insurance coverage for people who lose or change jobs. Title II was created to protect and ensure that health plans as well as health care providers keep health information confidential. Hybrid entity is a single legal entity that performs both covered and non-covered functions may choose to be a hybrid entity, for example, a university may have a medical center, which would be covered, and liberal arts schools, which would not. If the entity declares itself to be a hybrid entity, it must define and designate the parts of the entity that engage in HIPAA covered functions. Only those designated parts of the entity need comply with HIPAA. However, any disclosure or transfer of protected health information PHI between the covered functions and the non-covered functions within the same entity must follow the HIPAA Privacy Rule for use and disclosure of PHI. An authorization form is a written permission from the patients that allows use or disclosure of their protected health information for purposes other than treatment, payment or health care operations. This information must be included in an authorization form, A certain description of the information to be used, the name of the person authorized to make a request, which is the cover entity disclosing the information to, what is the regarding purpose, expiration date, write a revoke authorization letter, a statement of information, a statement that the covered entity will not do treatment or payment on,
The form must be signed and dated by the person or by the person’s representative. A patient consent form is a direct treatment relationship, and protected health information for treatment, payment, and health care operations. A consent is different from a HIPAA authorization, the latter is used to