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>>> "Schmidt, Lee M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/04/03 03:50PM >>>
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.
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From: Boyer, John
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Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:05
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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.
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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
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
wwmedgroup.com
425-259-4041
425-252-6642
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