02-08-2009, 06:58 PM
Doc wrote:
[quote=Black]
How can you let someone to the patient's bedside without effectively sharing information about that person's condition?
By keeping your mouth shut and not handing over the patient's chart.
HIPAA protects the paperwork, not the corpus.
('Just noticed I had the acronym wrong. Oops.)
I'm unable to find anything online to back up myself and kj about HIPPA, so, who knows. Can you do better, doc?
I need a kick in the pants for spending a warm sunny February day searching the internet for HIPPAA info. Gotta go check out a car for my mom . . .