Medical Records and the Law

582 INDEXnonphysician healthcare practitioners,93–94North Carolina lawHIV/AIDS, 360living wills, 283North Dakota law, peer review, 389notations, 94, 184–185notice, HIPAA, 218–227changes to, 223–224content of, 220–223covered entities giving, 218–219electronic, 225–226joint, 226–227time and manner of giving, 224–225who must receive and giveacknowledgment of, 218–219NPI (National Provider Identifier)Rule, 496–497nuclear medicine, 261nursesdisagreements with physicians,291–292making entries in patient charts, 61role in consent process, 93Ooccupational diseases, 255–256Occupational Safety and Health Actof 1970, 314OCR (Office for Civil Rights), 398Office of Inspector General. see OIG(Office of Inspector General)OHCAs (organized healthcarearrangements)business associate qualifications, 211disclosing PHI to staff within,179–189Privacy Rule for, 153–156Privacy Rule for HDNs, 451using joint notices, 226–227Ohio lawinformed consent, 92physician-patient privilege, 380OIG (Office of Inspector General)access to information collected byQIOs, 204antikickback laws, 480designing compliance programs,433–434healthcare fraud and abuseinvestigations, 325–327investigative authority of, 57Oklahoma lawbreach of confidentiality, 418emergency care records, 270Omnibus Crime Control and SafeStreets Act, Title III, 500–501Omnibus Reconciliation Act, 281open records, 133–135operative index, 46optical disk storage, 45Oregon lawHIV/AIDS disclosure, 359record content, 36organ donation, by incompetentadults, 88organizational security safeguards,EHRs, 471–473organized healthcare arrangements. seeOHCAs (organized healthcarearrangements)outside test reports, 329–333ownership, of recordsbusiness associate agreements, 216common ownership, 151–153overview of, 111–114when healthcare facility changesownership, 332–336PPap smear, 81parentsaccess to records of minors, 173–176consent for treatment of minors, 91disclosing records for adoption,300–302