Thanks!! I think we need a good giggle for a Friday!! >>> "Hromatka, Valerie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/04/03 10:52AM >>> Jim: We were doing as you are, but found triple locking the patient records in an underground bomb-proof facility no fewer than 50 miles from a paved road to be a bit troublesome. We resorted to implanting a small chip in each patient and found that to work very well. However, several patients complained that they were setting off car alarms as they walked by, three found that garage doors were springing open in the neighborhoods as they drove home, and five patients found that they couldn't get out of their yards with invisible fences. Thus, we have finally concluded that in order to be HIPAA compliant our best course of action is to not provide anesthesia to any patients. David David, The Feds will waive the 50 mile rule if you place your PHI in resealable 55 gallon drums and sink them to the bottom of 40 pool while you are not using them. When you purge old PHI it must be sent to Yucca Mt. The down side is that members of your office staff must have their diving certificates before the 14th.
Nick Sheena, We are thumb printing all patients onto the anesthesia record and the billing sheet so that we can verify that the billing sheet information matches the anesthesia record for that patient. In pre-op or Pre-Admission Testing, the CRNA and / or MDA is taking a digital recording of each patient's voice and encoding it onto a magnetic strip embedded into our new billing sheet. When our account representative calls the patient's home, they ask for the patient by name and hit the F10 button on their keyboard and our billing software records and displays the patient's encoded voice (previously transferred from the billing sheet) and compares it to the digital readout of the person the account representative is speaking to. When there is a match, the software flashes "Match" three times. At this point the account representative continues the conversation with the patient. The billing software automatically comments that the conversation with the patient was digitally matched. Jim Valerie Hromatka System Administrator Privacy Officer Western Washington Medical Group 3207 Wetmore Ave Everett, WA 98201 wwmedgroup.com 425-259-4041 425-252-6642 --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. They also are not intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or unprofessional communication at any time. You are currently subscribed to wedi-privacy as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list, go to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same as the address subscribed to the list, please use the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org ****** BKD, LLP Internet Email Confidentiality Footer ****** Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message, and notify us immediately. If you or your employer does not consent to Internet email messages of this kind, please advise us immediately. Opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this message are not given or endorsed by my firm or employer unless otherwise indicated by an authorized representative independent of this message. --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. They also are not intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or unprofessional communication at any time. You are currently subscribed to wedi-privacy as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list, go to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same as the address subscribed to the list, please use the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org
