What is a data backup in a medical office?
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Medical Office Assistant · Administrative Procedures and Office Management
Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Downtime
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Which term describes the planning and steps an office takes to recover its systems and information after a major disruption?
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In a medical office, what does the term downtime mean?
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What is a paper fallback, also called a downtime procedure?
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Which of the three goals of protecting health information is most directly supported by data backup and disaster recovery?
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- Describe data backup and disaster recovery and explain why they protect the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of patient information.
- Explain downtime procedures, including paper fallback, emergency mode operation, and reconciliation of records after an outage.
- Maintain access to essential patient information during outages while protecting privacy and staying within the medical office assistant's scope of practice.
Sources & references
- Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT — Privacy, Security, and HIPAA
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — Health Information Privacy (HIPAA)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
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