For Your Eyes Only

1
For Your Eyes Only

• HIPAA and the School of Nursing
• Pamela Mitchell (SON)
• Lorie Wild (UWMC)
• Paula Minton-Foltz (HMC)

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What is HIPAA?

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
  Act (HIPAA) of 1996
• Privacy provisions for health information
  enforceable April 2003
• Training in progress now for institutions with
  health care components

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How Does This Affect Us?

• SON is non-health component
• Patient health care information access for
• Research
• Teaching

• AHC hospitals are health care components
• Fully responsible
• Fully liable for breaches of privacy regarding
  patient health information

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SON as Responsible Partner

• Accessing patient records for research
• Accessing patient records for teaching
• Relevant HIPAA messages posted on intranet
  K\ONR\HIPAA research data

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More Information

• For more detail, please visit our UWAMC HIPAA
  Program website (it uses your UWnetID and
  password)
• https//know1.mcis.washington.edu/projects/proj_hi
  paa/
• On our website, you will find information about
  our efforts, as well as links to other sites like
  the Department of Health and Human Services,
  Administrative Simplification website
  http//aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/ There you can
  view the regulations, the federal FAQs, and the
  First Guidance on the Privacy Rule