HIPAA Compliance Date for Privacy Implementation Profile, v1.0
Profile of reules for determining and verifying the compliance date of a health care provider as specified by the HIPAA Privacy Rule per 45 CFR Section 164.534.
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Publication Date | 2017-02-17 | ||||
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TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationHealthCareProviders or TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationNonSmallHealthPlans or TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationSmallHealthPlans or TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationHealthCareClearinghouses
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TD Compliance Date for Privacy Implementation - Health Care Providers, v1.0 | |
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Description | Specifies rules for determining a health care related organization's starting date of compliance with the privacy rules based on the type of health care organization. |
ID | TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationHealthCareProviders |
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TD Compliance Date for Privacy Implementation - Non-Small Health Plans, v1.0 | |
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Description | Specifies rules for determining a health care related organization's starting date of compliance with the privacy rules based on the type of health care organization. |
ID | TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationNonSmallHealthPlans |
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TD Compliance Date for Privacy Implementation - Small Health Plans, v1.0 | |
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Description | Specifies rules for determining a health care related organization's starting date of compliance with the privacy rules based on the type of health care organization. |
ID | TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationSmallHealthPlans |
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TD Compliance Date for Privacy Implementation - Health Care Clearinghouses, v1.0 | |
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Description | Specifies rules for determining a health care related organization's starting date of compliance with the privacy rules based on the type of health care organization. |
ID | TD_ComplianceDateforPrivacyImplementationHealthCareClearinghouses |
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Terms (10)
Term Name | Abbreviations | Definition |
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Business Associate | BA | Covered entities engage "business associates" to work on their behalf. A business associate is a person (not part of the workforce of the covered entity) or organization that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information on behalf of the covered entity. Covered entities must have contracts or other arrangements in place with their business associates to ensure that the business associates safeguard protected health information, and use and disclose the information only as permitted or required by the Privacy Rule. A covered entity may be a business associate of another covered entity. |
Correctional Institution | CI | Correctional institution means any penal or correctional facility, jail, reformatory, detention center, work farm, halfway house, or residential community program center operated by, or under contract to, the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, for the confinement or rehabilitation of persons charged with or convicted of a criminal offense or other persons held in lawful custody. Other persons held in lawful custody includes juvenile offenders adjudicated delinquent, aliens detained awaiting deportation, persons committed to mental institutions through the criminal justice system, witnesses, or others awaiting charges or trial. |
Covered Entity | CE | The Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA apply to three types of entities, which are known as "covered entities": 1) health care providers if they transmit any information in an electronic form in connection with a transaction for which HHS has adopted a standard, 2) health plans, and 3) health care clearinghouses. A covered entity may be a business associate of another covered entity. |
Disclosure | Disclosure means the release, transfer, provision of access to, or divulging in any manner of information outside the entity holding the information. | |
Electronic Protected Health Information | e-PHI | Electronic protected health information means protected health information (PHI) that is transmitted by electronic means or maintained in electronic media. |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 | HIPAA | The HIPAA law includes Administrative Simplification provisions that require adoption of national standards for electronic health care transactions and code sets, unique health identifiers, and security. Additionally, Congress recognized that advances in electronic technology could erode the privacy of health information. Consequently, Congress incorporated into HIPAA provisions that mandated the adoption of Federal privacy protections for individually identifiable health information. |
Plan Administration Functions | PAF | Plan administration functions means administration functions performed by the plan sponsor of a group health plan on behalf of the group health plan and excludes functions performed by the plan sponsor in connection with any other benefit or benefit plan of the plan sponsor. |
Protected Health Information | PHI | Protected health information (PHI) means "individually identifiable health information" that is transmitted by electronic means or maintained in electronic media or transmitted or maintained in any other form or medium, except it excludes individually identifiable health information:
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Summary Health Information | Information, that may be individually identifiable health information, and that summarizes the claims history, claims expenses, or type of claims experienced by individuals. | |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | HHS | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) mission is to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans by providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services. |