Title: RE: HIPAA privacy and telephone
164.510 allows, but does not require covered entities
to disclose or use protected health information to:
Family
members, close friends, or others assisting in an individuals
care.
Rule
requires that the individual be notified in advance and given
and any attachments.
-Original Message-From: Clay, Roy III (NO)
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PMTo: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup ListSubject: RE: HIPAA
privacy and telephone
My feeling is that unless you have authorization from the
patient,
Title: RE: HIPAA privacy and telephone
Be
careful -
If you
say that an authorization is required, a y/n question will not fill the void
even if you track it.
If you
say that an authorization is required, it must be a HIPAA valid authorization
and there are a list of about 10 required
Title: RE: HIPAA privacy and telephone
My feeling is that unless you have authorization from the patient, anything other than giving the results directly to the patient is not allowed. You wish you can have an opt-in question on the order of "Do we have your permission to leave me
me too, please
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From: Bruce Bradigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:56 PM
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Subject: RE: HIPAA privacy and telephone
Can anyone point me towards vendors of systems like this (off list, please)
Thank you
gt; Subject: RE: HIPAA privacy and telephone
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> This is exactly what my physician does. When I have lab work
> at his office, I am given a slip of paper that has dial-in
> instructions, the pin number and my code number and when I
> can expect for the results to be availabl
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From: Ribelin, Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:47 AM
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Subject: RE: HIPAA privacy and telephone
A but who said anything about calling back and getting a human?
Call back, get the robot, type in the secret code (pin
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With all due respect, and I mean it sincerely.
Good idea for privacy Based on my many years of management
engineering and the application of
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From: Ribelin, Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:09 AM
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Subject: RE: HIPAA privacy and telephone
So far, the best scenario
The OCR guidance at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/privacy.html under
incidental disclosures indicates that leaving information with family
members or on an answering machine or mailing information is allowed,
but also cautions that professional judgment should be used to assure
that the information
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From: Doug Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:51 AM
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Subject:Re: HIPAA privacy and telephone
An extension to this -- how do you handle answering machines?
My gut feeling is
An extension to this -- how do you handle answering machines?
My gut feeling is that either a no-no (the machine more questionable than a family
member) -- the information could only be released to the patient or his/her
representative designated in a written authorizaton. Perhaps another signa
At our hospital we are stating the following in training:
"Our general policy would be to not give information out over the phone
except to the patient. However, in certain clinics and inpatient units,
staff will be familiar with the caller and with the patient's usual wishes.
Staff will be able t
Fairley,
I believe that leaving the "message" (in your scenario, below) would be a
HIPAA-sanctioned disclosure if the nurse has evidence that the spouse is:
The Personal Representative of the subject of the PHI, or
Participating in the patient's treatment
Otherwise, probably not. Furthe
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