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HIMI – 31 (week 31) Legal Scavenger Hunt
Based on each scenario presented, the student is to select 5 scenarios and investigate the legislation requirements for their province. The student must identify the specific legislation, and provide an explanation as to which section, and why this was chosen.
SCENARIO LEGISLATION
– WHY ACT(s) WERE SELECTED?
– STATE APPLICABLE SECTIONS OF ACT
A 16-year-old girl visits her family Dr. to obtain a prescription for birth control pills. In addition, she is found to have gonorrhoea.
Health Information Committee meets to discuss a storage problem in the HIM Dept.
Reply to a ROI by WCB on the victim of an assault and robbery.
Disagreement between the hospital pathologist and the attending physician as to whether (or not) an infant was stillborn.
The physiotherapy department wants to keep their original documentation and send the HIM a carbon copy for the patient’s record.
A representative from the College of Physicians and Surgeons wants to see the records of a doctor whose conduct is being investigated.
A family physician suspects her 5-year-old patient of having diphtheria.
The Patient Registration Department suggests it is no longer necessary to maintain a patient register.
An individual, an ex-member of the Canadian Armed Forces, is undergoing care in a rehabilitation facility. The Deputy Minister of Veterans Affairs requests access to this individual’s health information.
The coroner requests information on the case of a mental health patient who commits suicide while in a mental health facility
A doctor suspects the Chief of Surgery of being an alcoholic.
The age requirement for access to one’s personal health information.
The Board of a new hospital feels there is no need for bylaws if everyone cooperates.
In the course of your job as an HIM gathering statistics from persons treated in a home care program, you come upon a mother physically abusing her two-year-old child.
A teenager writes to the health record department for a copy of his birth certificate.
A physician meeting with her 76-year old patient and his son (Sam), determines the patient is not understanding the potential risks of the proposed surgery, however Sam does.
An elderly “John Doe” is brought to the hospital DOA and no relatives can be found.
Stats Canada requests statistics on all patients admitted to your hospital with a diagnosis of a psychiatric illness.
The chairman of your HIM Committee is reluctant to suspend the admitting privileges of delinquent doctors. He fears they will appeal to the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Marking Schema
Content: 90 Presentation: 10 Overall Value: 2%
This would be for the province of Ontario. I am unable to determine which type of legislation any of these fall under let alone which act or parts of the act apply. Please help.
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