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Welcome to Our
Office Practice!
Some reminders about
Patient Confidentiality and Trust
Welcome to Our Office, Our Patients!
We are proud to have you join our office,
our patients.
You are entering our
world of patients and
their very personal
medical problems.
Be respectful.
We want to be a part of your education
We want to help you achieve your objectives
in this clinical experience in our office.
But even more, we want to help you evolve
in your goals of becoming
an excellent physician.
We welcome you…
To the joy and responsibility…
…of caring for our patients and their families.
One responsibility is to abide by HIPAA rules that
guide patient confidentiality.
H.I.P.P.A.= The Federal Health
Insurance Portability & Accountability
Act of 1996/2003
HIPAA rules were invented to…
Balance between improving the flow of information
While protecting the privacy of patients.
The patient has the right to…
Request
Request
Request
Request
access to health info.
to amend their health info.
restrictions to information sharing
accountability of disclosures.
HIPAA rules require us to….
Treat all things we learn about patients as
confidential
- We can’t tell anyone else
Provide more control to patients over their
personal health information
Punish those who misuse
patient information by
imposing criminal & civil
penalties
HIPAA rules say….
You can’t talk about patients outside of the
office with anyone
Clinicians should only access the medical
information that is needed for their
job/clinical experience.
We need patients to give permission before
we can give information to others on their
behalf.
Keep medical records in a secure
place-both paper & electronic.
If you are using electronic medical
records….
You should have a unique password-don’t
share with others
Do not access information on yourself, your
family, your friends, staff or any other person.
You have a duty to report any breach in
confidentiality to your supervising doctor.
Remember most computer systems can track all access
to records.
Inappropriate access is punishable by federal and state law.
You may see more information on-line
Find the entire HIPAA privacy summary; sign up for alerts
www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/index.html
See examples of privacy agreements & training materials
www.insidehopkinsmedicine.org/hipaa
www.shadow.med.unc.edu
www.privacyrights.org
www.infoscope.mcw.edu/FileLibrary/GroupInfoScopeHIPAA
/MCW_HIPAA_Booklet.pdf
Georgetown guides give rules for state by state records
http://hpi.georgetown.edu/privacy/records.html
Let’s suppose …
You saw your teacher in the waiting room…..
…you are not allowed to tell anyone else
Let’s suppose…
You really worked a lot with one patient and
got to know them well in the office…
…You must not e-mail or “befriend” them
on Facebook or other social networking
site.
XXX
This is a ‘professional’ relationship, not a social one.
Let’s suppose …
You were very excited to see a patient’s new
walking progress and you take the elevator to
lunch with the nurse…
…You are not allowed
to talk about it in the
elevator around others.
We welcome you …
Together we can do more…
...to care for our patients & their families.
Please sign our confidentiality
agreement now.
Thank you….
Welcome to our practice!