Re: HIPAA locks on doors from hall to practitioner office?
paul
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Re: HIPAA locks on doors from hall to practitioner office?
Creator:
paul
Date:
3/29/2005
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To The Masses,
Yeah I'll worry about the locks on my doors when I'm guaranteed that MY personal info is secure at my physicians office or any other medical facility for that matter.
Let me share a situation that just occured at my home last Fri evening.
My eldest son's girlfriend had an MRI of her ankle do to repetative injuries as result of playing soccer. She was given copies of her MRI to give to her PCP, who had ordered the test. She asked if I could look at them before turning them over to her MD to see if I could see anything. (and possibly provide her w/ some sort of ankle orthosis to get her by for the spring season) I of course replyed positively to her request.
When I slipped the files out of the sleeve I discovered a set of cervical MRIs belonging to MRS._____, and a set of lumbar MRIs belonging to MR._________. Now tell me how private are these records now?!
By the way the woman does need an operation in my opinion, since C4 was subluxed at least 50% over C5. Her odontoid was in tact through the open mouth view. I therefore feel that a posterior approach w/ wiring and a post op fitting of a Miami J or Aspen collar will do her just fine.
The gentleman seems OK for now. There is some spurring on some of the lumbar verebrae, depending on the results of a mylogram will determin whether he needs surgery.
But then again that's my opinion. Maybe we should let the Doc's decide this stuff.
But let's keep it private just between us Girls OK.
By the way my son's girlfriend will be just fine. She just needs to rest and wear the othosis I gave her. I had to give it to her because she refused to disclose any personal information I required to bill her insurance. My son tells me that he really likes her and asked me to do him this favor and just give it to her, Please? Which I did.
Paul D
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy McFarland [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>]
Sent: March 29, 2005 1:59 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] HIPAA locks on doors from hall to practitioner
office?
Am I understanding correctly that HIPAA requires us to put locks on
doors that lead from patient areas to areas that have patient charts
that are not locked in a room or a cabinet?
This means that doors to practitioners' offices (where charts are
sitting on their desks) must always be kept closed and locked. This
means that practitioner must have a key or a code to open the door to
his own office each time.
What type of door locks are you guys using?
Thanks,
Randy McFarland, CPO
Fullerton, CA
Yeah I'll worry about the locks on my doors when I'm guaranteed that MY personal info is secure at my physicians office or any other medical facility for that matter.
Let me share a situation that just occured at my home last Fri evening.
My eldest son's girlfriend had an MRI of her ankle do to repetative injuries as result of playing soccer. She was given copies of her MRI to give to her PCP, who had ordered the test. She asked if I could look at them before turning them over to her MD to see if I could see anything. (and possibly provide her w/ some sort of ankle orthosis to get her by for the spring season) I of course replyed positively to her request.
When I slipped the files out of the sleeve I discovered a set of cervical MRIs belonging to MRS._____, and a set of lumbar MRIs belonging to MR._________. Now tell me how private are these records now?!
By the way the woman does need an operation in my opinion, since C4 was subluxed at least 50% over C5. Her odontoid was in tact through the open mouth view. I therefore feel that a posterior approach w/ wiring and a post op fitting of a Miami J or Aspen collar will do her just fine.
The gentleman seems OK for now. There is some spurring on some of the lumbar verebrae, depending on the results of a mylogram will determin whether he needs surgery.
But then again that's my opinion. Maybe we should let the Doc's decide this stuff.
But let's keep it private just between us Girls OK.
By the way my son's girlfriend will be just fine. She just needs to rest and wear the othosis I gave her. I had to give it to her because she refused to disclose any personal information I required to bill her insurance. My son tells me that he really likes her and asked me to do him this favor and just give it to her, Please? Which I did.
Paul D
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy McFarland [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>]
Sent: March 29, 2005 1:59 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] HIPAA locks on doors from hall to practitioner
office?
Am I understanding correctly that HIPAA requires us to put locks on
doors that lead from patient areas to areas that have patient charts
that are not locked in a room or a cabinet?
This means that doors to practitioners' offices (where charts are
sitting on their desks) must always be kept closed and locked. This
means that practitioner must have a key or a code to open the door to
his own office each time.
What type of door locks are you guys using?
Thanks,
Randy McFarland, CPO
Fullerton, CA
Citation
paul, “Re: HIPAA locks on doors from hall to practitioner office?,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/224517.
