02-08-2009, 08:29 PM
Doc wrote:
...None of which has to do with visitation rights.
Hipaa isn't supposed to exhaustively detail every conceivable way information can be mishandled. That's up to those trying to follow Hipaa. Hipaa gives you the goal, and it's up to practitioners to figure out how to get there. Of course, in a field that values people who are anal, you get people going overboard. kj.