Health Law & Data Privacy and Confidentiality

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  1. 3. The power and authority of a court to hear, interpret, and apply the law to and decide specific types of cases.
  2. 5. A complaint against a third party.
  3. 7. Examples of _____ entity; a health plan, health care clearinghouse, a healthcare provider who transmits any health information in electronic form.
  4. 9. The acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of protected health information in a manner not permitted.
  5. 10. A request for reconsideration of a denial of coverage or rejection of claim decision.
  6. 11. A legal and ethical concept that establishes the healthcare provider's responsibility for protecting health records and other personal and private information from unauthorized use or disclosure.
  7. 16. The act of granting approval to a healthcare organization based on whether the organization has met a set of voluntary standards.
  8. 18. Discovery devices consisting of a set of written questions given to a party, witness, or other person who has information needed in a legal case.
  9. 19. A relationship between the defendant's conduct and the harm that was suffered.
  10. 20. Legal authority or formal permission from authorities to carry on certain activities that by law or regulation require such permission.
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  1. 1. The release, transfer, provision of access to, or divulging in any manner of information outside the entity holding the information.
  2. 2. The obligation established by a relationship such as a physician caring for a patient.
  3. 4. The principle that a statue at one level supersedes or is applied over the same or similar statute at a lower level.
  4. 6. Pretrial stage in the litigation process, during which both parties to a suit use various strategies to identify information about the case.
  5. 7. A written legal statement from a plaintiff that initiates a civil lawsuit.
  6. 8. A written or oral statement made outside of court that is offered in court as evidence.
  7. 12. _____ tort is circumstance where a healthcare provider purposely commits a wrongful act that results in injury.
  8. 13. Process of reviewing and validating the qualifications of physicians and other licensed independent practitioners, for granting medical staff membership to provide care services.
  9. 14. ____ directory is a list of patients being treated in a healthcare facility.
  10. 15. A countersuit
  11. 17. ______ information- personal characteristics have been stripped in a way that it cannot be later constituted or combined to reidentify an individual.