Assume you work as an insurance billing assistant in a hospital. You send an electronic transmission containing protected health information to a hospital in a distant state and receive notice that the PHI was sent to the wrong address. What will you do?
Inform your privacy officer of the breach, document the incident, and send the information to the correct address.
As an employee in the medical records department of a hospital, you have been asked to de-identify a patient’s protected health information for electronic transmission. What does this involve?
You’ll need to remove information that can identify the patient, including:
name
zip code
date of birth
dates of treatment
telephone numbers
fax number
e-mail addresses
Social Security number
medical record numbers
health plan beneficiary numbers
birth certificate and driver’s license
vehicle identification number and license plate number
