For the following questions, determine if there is a breach or not: A mother e-mailed her son’s teacher about his history of seizures.  Months later, the teacher replied to the e-mail to tell the mother about discipline problems.  Communication eventually became contentious.  The teacher forwarded the conversation to her best friend, a teacher at the same school.  The information about the boy’s seizures was way at the bottom of the e-mail strain.

The development of policies and procedures that address e-PHI security would fall under which type of safeguard required by the HIPAA Security Rule?

HIPAA lessened the rights of patients. 

HIPAA does not cover the electronic documentation of protected health information.

What does NPP stand for: 

The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects: 

Under HIPAA, as part of a patient’s right to restrict access to their PHI, a patient can state that a hospital does not list the patient in its hospital directory: 

Physical security includes which of the following: 

The primary federal law pertaining to medical information privacy is:

Under HIPAA a patient has the right to all but the following: