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gypsyatheart

705 Posts

Specializes in Case Mgmt; Mat/Child, Critical Care.
The law is aimed at institutions and how they manage information not individual healthcare persons. Right now it is intimidating individual nurses and doctors and making them reluctant to do what is humane.

I disagree, I believe it is aimed, as well, at the individual healthcare worker. HIPPA applies to everyone in the healthcare setting.

Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.
The law is aimed at institutions and how they manage information not individual healthcare persons...

But Or, the institutions can only act through their individual personnel... that's all of us.

In that regard, we're the hospital, etc.

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN

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Healthcare providers are legally permitted and encouraged to share pertinant pt info w/ each other and with other institutions, which are caring for the same pt. The problem is not HIPAA. The problem is people who have not educated themselves about it, and therefore inappropriately withold vital pt information from other caregivers.

Most people can't even get the acronym right.

http://www.hipaadvisory.com/regs/finalprivacymod/uses.htm

ginger1023

61 Posts

Thanks it was interesting ..informative reading....

:p.....HIPAA was made to protect people ,but like any laws it has its flaws ..so you have to find your own way to find out information regarding someone ..you either care for or work for...

often information is easier to get ,then you might think ...:chuckle

If you REALLY want to find out something about someone....:)

Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.
Healthcare providers are legally permitted and encouraged to share pertinant pt info w/ each other and with other institutions, which are caring for the same pt... The problem is people who have not educated themselves about it...

The first part of the above is true. Challenges sometime creep in when attempting to accomplish the communication safely.

On the second part, in the eyes of the law, think responsibility for furthering education / understanding of the reg's would generally fall on healthcare facilities.

But, to clarify, neither issue relates to the question originally posed.

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