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CLUE 1:Help patients feel more confident in the U.S. Healthcare system
CLUE 2:Stress the importance of the relationship between patients and providers
CLUE 3:Stress the role that patients have to take to get and stay healthy
CLUE 4:Developed by thr American Medical Association in 1975 |
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1.Governs patient confidentiality
2.Enacted in 1974
3.Provides safeguards against an invasion of privacy through the misuse of records by federal agencies. |
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1.Governs patient confidentiality
2.Enacted in 1974
3.Provides safeguards against an invasion of privacy through the misuse of records by federal agencies. |
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| Created national standards to protect individuals' medical records and other personal health information |
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1.Ensures that patient understands their right to participate in decisions about their own healthcare.
2.Requires that hospitals and Healthcare providers make available to patients info regarding advance directives. |
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1.Written instruments that express the patient's right to make his or her own healthcare decisions.
2.Is activated when patient becomed incapacitated |
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A document that specifies what treatments a patient does and does not wish to receive.
(advance directives) |
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A document that designates someone else to make decisions on the patient's behalf if he or she is unable to.
(known as a healthcare surrogate,agent,or proxy; advance directive) |
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Healthcare Power of Attorney
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare |
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1.Commonly known as "Obamacare"
2.signed on March 23, 2013
3.Aimed primarily at decreasing the number of uninsured Americans and reducing the overall costs of healthcare. |
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PPACA Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
ACA Affordable Care Act
Federal Health Care Law |
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