Unit #7 Assignment Topic: Access to Health Information (CStudy) 10 pts. Outcome: V.1. Comply with legal processes impacting health information (5-Evaluate) V.4. Analyze the impact of policy on health care (4-Analyze) Objective: Student will provide appropriate responses for release of information to various parties. Assignment: Read McWay, Chapter 10, pg. 233. Case Study A: You are the director of health information services at a tertiary care hospital. You and the director of emergency room services are jointly responsible for reporting instances of communicable disease, child abuse, and cancer to the appropriate state authority. You have just completed an audit of your institutions reporting mechanism and discovered that the reporting requirements are not consistently met. The audit could not definitively establish whether the reporting never occurred or occurred but was not documented in the patients health record. Discuss what legal issues are present and what approaches you should take to resolve this problem. Case Study B: You are the head of the health information management

department at General Hospital. An FBI agent has arrived at your office with a search warrant in hand. He asks to speak with you about the hospitals health records. How should you respond?

CASE STUDY A You are the director of health information services at a tertiary-care hospital. You and the director of emergency room services are jointly responsible for reporting instances of communicable disease, child abuse, and cancer to the appropriate state authority. You have just completed an audit of your institution's reporting mechanism and dis- covered that the reporting requirements are not consistently met. The audit could not definitively establish whether the reporting never occurred or occurred but was not documented in the patient's health record. Discuss what legal issues are present and what approaches you should take to resolve this problem. CASE STUDY B You are the head of the health information management department at General Hospi- . An FBI agent has arrived at your office with a search warrant in hand. He asks to speak with you about the hospital's health records. How should you respond