Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

1. Apply applicable federal, state, and local laws and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid regulations to the health care environment.
2. Release patient-specific data to authorized users and request patient specific information from other sources.
3. Apply legal requirements of acceptable methods for complete and timely documentation and authentication of entries to the medical record.
4. Maintain ethical tenets of a healthcare professional and act in an ethical manner.
5. Maintain an awareness and understanding of federal and state health care legislation and regulations.
6. Use an understanding of the legal ramifications of codes of ethic violations.

Students will demonstrate these learning outcomes by these tasks conducted individually and in cooperation with other students:
1. Answering theoretical and application questions on information covered in the lecture, graded assignments and reading assignments.
2. Determining how to handle case studies on patient confidentiality and release of patient information.
3. Locating and reporting on current legal issues in the delivery of healthcare.