Part 1
- Discuss the difference between privacy and confidentiality.
- How is the FTC involved in protecting health information?
- What is the Freedom of Information Act. How do members of the public use it?
- Provide a brief synopsis of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
- Provide a brief synopsis of the HIPAA Security Rule
- Define covered entities and business associates under HIPAA
- Under the Privacy Rule, when may PHI be disclosed?
- Differentiate between use and release of PHI.
- Discuss Risk Analysis under HIPAA.
- Discuss a HIPAA contingency plan.
- What is a covered entity’s responsibility before reusing portable electronic storage media?
- What audit controls, if any, are required under HIPAA?
- Contrast the three tiers of HIPAA violation penalties.
- Discuss healthcare data vulnerability. Is there evidence that PHI should be effectively protected?
- Discuss the difference between an integrity violation and a confidentiality violation of health care data.
- Discuss the conflict between security and availability in health care data.
- List and define the seven steps of a model health care organization security plan? Where can this plan be found?
- Provide two reasons for the increase in healthcare care data breaches.
- What are the core functions of the NIST security framework?
Part 2
- What is the Joint Commission and what do they do?
- What is NCQA and what do they do?
- Who licenses health care facilities?
- Conmpare and contrast accreditaiton, licensure and certification?
- Discuss four types of quality metrics and why they are necessary.
- What is a disease registry used for?
- Discuss two ways that HEDIS data is used.
- Define benchmarking.
- Provide something interesting that you learned from the Dartmouth Atlas.
- Use Hospital Compare to find out something about a hospital near where you live>
- Discuss three strategies that CMS hjas used to improve health care delivery.
Part 3
- What is XML and how can be used in healthcare data transmission?
- What is an ad hoc standard?
- What is a a De Facto standard?
- What is a government mandate?
- How does the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) use consensus in standard setting?
- What is ISO and how does it differ from ANSI?
- What are the five elements of the SDO standard setting process?
- Name two ‘profiling’ bodies and their function.
- What is ICD-10-CM and what is used for?
- How often is the Interoperability Standards Advisory updates and what does it contain?
- What is the relationship between HL-7 and FHIR?
- Why are vocabulary standards necessary in healthcare?
- How does SNOMED CT advance health information storatge?
- What is the purpose of the Unified Medical Language System?
- How does HL-7 version 3 differ from previous versions?
- What is the signifance of transportable patient care information?
Part 4
- List and describe the 7 objectives of the IT planning process.
- What does it mean that the process of linking IT initiatives to organizational goals is ‘complex, iterative, and, at times, driven by politics and instincts”?
- Describe the elements of IT strategy.
- What does the author mean by ‘leverage points’ when the book discusses the ‘inverted tree that cascades from mission to… initiatives’?
- Describe the three elements of implementation discussed by the author.
- When the author talks about implementation why does she suggest using data warehousing technologies to reduce ‘inappropriate procedure use’?
- Describe both what the implementation component of strategy is and is not.
- What are the vectors that the author refers to for arriving at IT strategy. Define vector.
- Discuss the linkage between organizational strategy and IT strategy.
- What is necessary to use the vector of continuous improvement of core processes and information management to determine IT strategies.
- What does the vector of new IT capabilities suggest for an IT agenda?
- What are the four elements of the IT asset in an organization?
- Why is it important to have a method for developing, documenting, and managing an IT strategy?
- Discuss IT strategy and alignment challenges.
- Explain the 5 stages of the ‘hype cycle’.