08 Aug What are the provider responsibilities under HIPAA.
Questions
1. Healthcare ecosystem
a. Comprehensively discuss all of the industries in the healthcare ecosystem (based on Zoom class videos)
b. What are the 4 major digital challenges in the healthcare industry? Discuss each.
c. Discuss the digitization of medical equipment.
d. How will digitization play an important role in patient medical records?
2. Hospital administration
a. Discuss the obligations specific to hospital outpatient departments.
b. Discuss the obligations specific to off-campus hospital facilities.
c. Discuss the requirements specific to joint ventures between hospitals and physicians.
3. Privacy and security
a. Discuss why patient privacy matters.
b. Explain how the HIPAA either helps or hurts the burden of regulations in the industry.
c. What are the provider responsibilities under HIPAA.
d. Under what circumstances can a provider disclose a patient’s health information to another health care provider?
