Notice of Privacy Practices
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The HIPAA notice explaining how a covered entity may use and disclose PHI and the patient's privacy rights.
Related terms
- covered entityUnder HIPAA, a health plan, a health care clearinghouse, or a provider who sends health information…
- HIPAAHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which sets federal privacy and security rules…
- PHIProtected health information: individually identifiable health information that HIPAA protects.
- minimum necessaryThe HIPAA standard that only the least amount of PHI needed for a task may be used, disclosed or requested.
- misdemeanorA less serious crime, generally punishable by a fine or less than one year in jail.
- negligenceFailure to act as a reasonably careful person in the same position would, causing harm to someone owed a duty.
- nonmaleficenceThe ethical principle of avoiding harm ("do no harm").
- plaintiffThe person who files a lawsuit.
- res ipsa loquitur"The thing speaks for itself": a legal doctrine for a breach of duty so obvious that negligence is presumed.
- respondeat superiorThe legal rule that an employer is responsible for employees' negligent acts done within the scope of their…
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