Suggest you ALL carefully, carefully read all the New HIPPA guidelines.
Many will become effective as of October 2002.
The Horse is ALREADY OUT OF THE BARN.
There is a boiled down version available in print.
Otherwise you can read the whole 50,000 pages at the .gov websites.
The Guidelines affect everyone, the small solo practice up the BIG
Megagroups, from the Cleaning Crew and Janitorial Staff to the CEO Owners of
the Largest Group Practice and Hospitals.
Falball
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"The proverbial country doctor who deals only in paper...."
Now WHAT doctor doesn't have a fax machine. It uses an
electronic means of sorts to transmit information, though
generally it starts and ends with paper. When I attended
the TEPR conference in Boston last spring, I got the idea
if you were in a small practice (and I wasn't sure of that
definition) you were exempt from certain things. I left
feeling like I wouldn't be "unduly" effected. I feel really
stupid on this matter. There is so much of it that seems so
contradictory. "Tell me your innermost secrets and then
they will be safe with me" makes a lot less sense than not
telling your secrets at all.
Any education you can give us on this, please continue.
Debbie
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> patient
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