RE: 10 Days to go, don't bother opening if you don't want a good laugh

[Moehrke, John (MED, GEMS-IT)]

Title: Message

In fact it is my understanding that John's suggestion is indeed the French current state. My coworkers from France have their whole medical record, X-ray films, ECGs, and all in a folder at their home. They are required to bring it in.  Not sure how they deal with things like psychology notes, MRI data, and such. -----Original Message----- From: Schmidt, Lee M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:50 PM To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List Subject: RE: 10 Days to go, don't bother opening if you don't want a good laugh Importance: High We best be careful.   These suggestions, as twisted as they are, could become law down the road, if witnessed by the right government entity.     You know the old saying, be careful what you wish for..........   Lee  -----Original Message----- From: Huber, Cheri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:33 PM To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List Subject: RE: 10 Days to go, don't bother opening if you don't want a good laugh Except for the EMTALA ramifications it sounds like the ideal solution.   -----Original Message----- From: Boyer, John (EOM) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:05 AM To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List Subject: RE: 10 Days to go, don't bother opening if you don't want a good laugh   Our approach to HIPAA Privacy compliance is also somewhat different.  We've taken the position that in order to minimize the risk of inappropriate use or disclosure of PHI we will no longer maintain any medical records on our premises.  Patients will be responsible for their own medical charts and will be required to bring their records with them for any treatment purposes.  Any additions to the medical chart must be made by the patient and all charts must be taken home upon completion of any treatment or procedure.    Patients will be required to recite pertinent sections of their medical records to clinical staff for treatment purposes.  Clinical staff will be required to take versed to impair their short term memory and thus prevent subsequent post-treatment disclosures of PHI.   O/R staff and surgeons will not be permitted to orally discuss the patient or any aspect of the operative procedures.  Sports, politics and religion will be the only permitted topics of conversation in the O/R.  Patients will brief their surgeon's from their medical records prior to surgery but only after the surgeon has taken the requisite prophylactic dose of versed.   Unconscious E/R patients will be deferred to other treatment facilities. -----Original Message----- From: Hromatka, Valerie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:52 AM To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List Subject: 10 Days to go, don't bother opening if you don't want a good laugh 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. 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