HCR 210 Week 8 Assignment Releasing Protected Health Information

HCR 210 Week 8 Assignment Releasing Protected Health Information Recent

Assignment: Releasing Protected Health Information
•         Resource: Ch. 8 of Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices
•         Summarize when covered entities may release protected health information only with a patient’s consent and when they may release it without consent, for each category:
o Government agencies
o Legal agencies or representatives
o Research groups
•         Discuss the principles that permit disclosure of protected health information without a patient’s consent, and state whether or not you feel privacy safeguards are adequate to support those principles.
•         Include at least two outside references.
•         Format your assignment according to APA standards.
•         Post your paper as an attachment.