What of the following WAS NOT one of the stated purposes of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996?

a.To safeguard the security and privacy of patient information.

b.To contain health care costs.

c.To increase the percentage of the population with health insurance.

d.To encourage the use of electronic transmission of health information.

Of the following, which is NOT an instance where health care providers have a legal responsibility to report information in spite of patient confidentiality?

a.child abuse

b.elder abuse

c.injuries from gunshot wounds

d.there is a legal responsibility to report in all of these instances

Which of the following defenses of the principle of confidentiality within health care comes from a utilitarian point of view?Choose the best answer.

a.Failure to maintain patient confidences leads to patients refusing to tell important information; therefore, breaking confidentiality would have the

effect of creating a situation where health care was less than optimal.

b.The ability to keep patient confidences is a recognized virtue acknowledged in our best traditions. It is impossible to imagine that a good

practitioner from any health care specialty would fail in this duty.

c.Failure to maintain patient confidences breaks an important principle of health care ethics that can be found in most codes of professional

conduct.

d.Confidentiality and maintaining patient confidences is a recognized good because to not do so opens one up to legal sanction.

Which of the following defenses of the principle of confidentiality within health care comes from a deontologic point of view?Choose the best answer.

a.Failure to maintain patient confidences leads to patients refusing to tell important information; therefore, breaking confidentiality would have the

effect of creating a situation where health care was less than optimal.

b.The ability to keep patient confidences is a recognized virtue acknowledged in our best traditions. It is impossible to imagine that a good

practitioner from any health care specialty would fail in this duty.

c.Failure to maintain patient confidences breaks an important principle of health care ethics that can be found in most codes of professional

conduct.

d.Confidentiality and maintaining patient confidences is a recognized good because to not do so opens one up to legal sanction.