Taylors33

A HIPAA violation is when colleagues share a patients information with individuals not involved in my or others care. Posting private patient information to social media platforms. Leaving patient information lying around. Or opening a patient records that you are not involved with.

I’m curious if this constitutes as a HIPAA violation. I was looking over my patients chart and noticed their address had a long unusual name. I entered the address in Google to confirm that said address matched what was in the chart. After I confirmed it, I started looking at addresses in the surrounding areas, browsing houses. After about 5 minutes my mind went “wait a minute isn’t this a HIPAA violation” and exited out of the site and resumed my charting. I honestly feel like It was a violation not matter how long I was “browsing” for. I appreciate any input, I feel horrible and guilty for allowing this to happen.