HIPPA violation.....question

[dragonfly954]

I can't get into any detail,but MAJOR HIPPA violation will have to dealt with at my facility.I didn't do it ,but we were the ones that found out about the violation and reported it.We were afraid if we didn't we would get in trouble for not at least passing it along to upper mgt.It was quietly passed along in formal writing to the administrator because KNEW this wasn't going to go away at all.We did it for cya reasons........not to be vengeful.Sort of like "you found it ,you deal with it"The HIPPA security officer stated that if we had not reported it,we could have gotten in just as much trouble! Is this true?What happens now?I am asking what is the usual process that happens now?

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

... How I handled this situation and others like it is to take the persons name and phone # and give it to the patient for them to call. If the patient is not 'with it' then I leave the message with the manager. I refuse to give any info over the phone.

Starting to like this.

Experienced any probs with the procedure?

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA not HIPPA.[/quote']

Yes! Thumbs up!

Even administrators can't get it right where I work.

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

Sorry no passwords here (like any of us have the time for password games). I just do not give out info. If people have a problem, tell them to complain to complain to Washington that enacted this mess.

So many people think HIPAA is a bad thing- restricting what we can divulge about our pts and to whom is only a small part of what HIPAA does.

Did you know that, thanks to HIPAA, if you change health ins companies, your new company cannot refuse to cover care for a pre-existing condition?

How great is that?