Definition: regulates the privacy of patient’s health information.

 Definition: permission to use information based on the reasonfor knowing, or use of, the information.

 Definition: a national data bankthat collects and reports disclosures of actions taken against healthcare practitioners,providers, and vendors for noncompliance and fraudulent activities.

Definition: occurs when the state privacy laws are stricter than the privacystandards established by HIPAA.

Definition: an abortion caused by artificial means such as medications or surgical procedures.

 Definition: a procedure in which a donor’s sperm is used.

Definition: the injection of seminal fluid that contains male sperminto the female’s vagina from her husband, partner, or donor by some meansother than sexual intercourse.

Definition: unborn child between the second and twelfth week after conception.

Definition:  in the case of a fetus, ability to survive outside of the uterus.

Definition:  a wireless system that is used by physiciansand nurses to access patient information.