Priority #1 is breech/breach, which to use? nm

• Reporting sexual abuse? - Beth
  • reporting sexual abuse - nowarrants
  • Not about child abuse, but... - Researcher
  • This may not be a popular opinion, but I would be - tempted to report it (sm)
    • Anybody can anonymously 'drop a dime' - Researcher
      • *67 doesn't work on 800 numbers - The Paranoid One
    • Priority #1 is breech/breach, which to use? nm - insanity
  • Sexual Abuse - TravelinMT
  • You type, you send, you forget. Period. End. - nm - Laverne
  • Definitely not...how do you know if it's a valid complaint?...(SM) - MT1
    • Sexual abuse - anonymousforareason
    • See above post - Researcher
  • I think you probably would not have a - My thinking
  • are you sure the physician HASNT sm - FED UP 30+
    • Are you sure he HAS? - Researcher
      • Not OUR job, it is the physician's and/or - his medical personnel. (NM)
  • How do you know the physician hasn't - SM

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Has anyone else seen the news item about the man who intentionally put 12 nails into his head with a nail gun?   Isn't putting this on TV a violation of this man's privacy?  Even mentioning that he did it, or putting his x-ray/CT scan on for all of us to see?  I know it's a news item, but it is medical, and I'm sure HE didn't give his permission for this to be aired.  Any thoughts?  (He is doing well and expected to recover).

the healthcare provider , i.e. the doc, establishes the standards for protecting privacy of records. You (or your service) is the Business Associate who COMPLIES with whatever standards the doctor sets. Some docs send files by email, some want encryption. Hospitals, obviously, generally do more locking down on their stuff, as they are more open to lawsuits. All YOU have to do to be HIPAA compliant is to COMPLY witih the standards the doc sets. It is not up to you to set them. Also what you and everyone else forgets about HIPAA is it is a two part process. Not only does the patient's medical records have to be disclosed BUT the patient must also suffer a loss because of the disclosure. So even if your doc stands out on the street and tells passers-by about Mrs. So and So and her athlete's foot, unless she incurs a loss from that, it's not a HIPAA violation. Remember this whole thing came about because a pharmacy tech went home and told her high school son that another classmate's father was coming in for HIV drugs...get the picture? Something private was disclosed inappropriately and that's how the girl found out her father was HIV positive.

as it should be for doctors, nurses and health care professionals.  I know how frustrating it can be trying to translate broken English, etc.  I complain about it, too!!  Sometimes I get so angry, because it actually takes money out of my pocket in that I spend so much time trying to "get it right" instead of just using my knowledge and typing skills typing dictation from a clear-speaking doctor with good English.  Sometimes you want to just scream!!!    BUT, again, it is part of our job to provide an accurate  and presentable medical document.  I wish things were different, but it appears that we have to work with what we've got or learn a new profession. 

That is my humble opinion.  

Otherwise our marriage would have failed years ago as so many do. Sure we both have different interests and different ways of thinking, but we respect each others space in that regard and we teach this to our children as well.

We were both married before to the types that needed to make themselves and their controlling families top priority and neither of us could ever figure out why they did that.

We were lucky though as our parents never interfered and they always made their relationship their number one priority. What happened in their private lives was none of our business.  My parents would have been married for 60 years in May, but both are gone now. His parents have been married for 51 years.

Our older two are grown and gone and thankfully live locally (by their own choice). They call to say hello, but not every day.  We watch the grandkids when we can. We do say no when we can't. We'd never dream of  interfering in their private lives unless there was an obvious issue that put any of them in danger.

We still have 2 younger teens at home and both are doing fine . . . .for teens that is!

I've no turkey left already with the teenager appetite!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/15/octuplet.mom.hospital/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The hospital where a California woman gave birth to octuplets in January has been fined $250,000 by the state because nearly two dozen medical workers, including doctors, illegally viewed her medical records, according to state health officials.

Nadya Suleman was the subject of controversy after giving birth to octuplets in January.

Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower hospital, where Nadya Suleman's eight babies were born, revealed in March that 15 employees lost their jobs and eight others were disciplined for improperly accessing her computerized medical records.

There was no evidence that information from the medical files was leaked to the news media, which has intensely covered Suleman's story, according to Kathleen Billingsley, deputy director of the California Public Health Department's Center for Health Care Quality.

Six of the privacy breaches happened at other Kaiser Permanente facilities, which are linked into the same computer system housing medical records.

Suleman -- already a single mother with six children -- gave birth to octuplets conceived through in vitro fertilization, fueling controversy. News of her collecting public assistance for some of her children outraged many taxpayers.