On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > and Judah, thanks for the heads up on HIPAA. I glad you told me since I > have been working with this type of data for over 10 years.
Then I hope you are a damn sight more careful in your words and your work in that context than you are here. >You're probably right. It's perfectly cool for a doctor to say twelve teenage > girls are hysterical. That could never harm them like actually coming out > and saying that each girls does not have a specific disease. Go back and re-read what I said. It would be inappropriate for a doctor to to comment on these cases. If would be a HIPAA violation to disclose information that could be traced back to identifying individuals. It is not a HIPAA violation to talk about the general nature of a class of disease. HIPAA violation: Judah has the flu and should be quarantined for 2 days as that is the normal period of highest transmissibility. Not HIPAA violation: People with influenza are most contagious for 2 days following the onset of symptoms, so we recommend that they try to avoid contact with individuals during that time period. If you don't understand that distinction, please get the hell out of the medical field. Thanks, Ju ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346515 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
