Comments on: Patient Confidentiality and Security?? /2006/08/patient-confidentiality-and-security/ Allan's Intellectual Transfer Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:59:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 By: Dave /2006/08/patient-confidentiality-and-security/#comment-93 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:59:11 +0000 /?p=77#comment-93 The above website says you can ask that they not share your information, but they do not have to do what you ask, so what’s the point of having a privacy act?

Page 2 of Fact Sheet: Your Health Information Privacy Rights

]]> By: Dave /2006/08/patient-confidentiality-and-security/#comment-92 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:53:37 +0000 /?p=77#comment-92 I am glad that it has all worked out, but it does make me leary of how easy it can be to get information.

]]> By: Allan /2006/08/patient-confidentiality-and-security/#comment-91 Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:28:30 +0000 /?p=77#comment-91 Interestingly, I did not share with the hospital that the anyone managed our medical expences. However, the group that does manage our expences called asking for some details and they gave them the information and listed them as our “insurance company” without consulting us. We have been listed at the hospital as uninsured and self-pay for 4+ years and we never told them otherwise.

]]> By: Sam /2006/08/patient-confidentiality-and-security/#comment-89 Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:31:37 +0000 /?p=77#comment-89 let me clarify.. the organization that manages your medical expenses can access your records. If anyone else that you have not authorized to give that information to calls, they should not be able to get any information. Check out that website for a better explination.

]]> By: Sam /2006/08/patient-confidentiality-and-security/#comment-88 Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:24:09 +0000 /?p=77#comment-88 Third party “providers” should not have access to your medical records without your consent. I know that in our setting, we are only allowed to share patient information within the clinic walls, and that is with patient permission. check out:
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/
Looks like you could surf this site for a long time, but it has some good info, if you can dig it up.

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