Simple example: The way the HIPPA requirements for document security is written you will: Have to maintain Signed Confidentiality Forms for all MDs, Employees and even cleaning people, part time clerks, HS or College students hired to assist in minor activities within the office. In essence, ANY person who has access to any charts.
Charts can not be left lying on physicians desks, nursing stations, labs. They have to be in locked file cabinets at the end of every day so no one can have free access to them. All items of paperwork that is not kept in those locked files, will need to be shredded and discarded much the same way of hazardous waste! More than one physician has been sued and has LOST MANY, MANY dollars within the past 1-3 years due to Confidential Patient Information (ie: such as lab partials that were discarded in the garbage....hey, don't we all do that?) And that is some of the issues just for starters. This is Onerous At Best and a total, expensive, impossible disaster at the worst. No electronic data can be transmitted without an encryptation that is HIPPA compliant ecrypted, whatever that is. Think of all those physicians using PMR software, that have been using for many, many years, w/o problems it just does the job for them and they have no desire or reason to change. They will no longer be able to electronically transmit their claims as those softwares are 90-95% of the time HIPPA NON-COMPLIANT. Please beware, this is NOT a physician friendly nor patient friendly Regulation and Laws that we will all have to deal with soon. Falball
