I thought about all your comments here and yet I still can not think what is wrong about having the practices you have mentioned die away, quickly. Thanks On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:10:11 EST >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [practicemgt] RE: How can we allow the government to increase > their cont... >Resent-Date: 13 Jan 2002 23:10:50 -0000 >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > >Simple example: > >The way the HIPPA requirements for document security is written you will: >Have to maintain Signed Confidentiality Forms for all MDs, Employees and even >cleaning people, part time clerks, HS or College students hired to assist in >minor activities within the office. In essence, ANY person who has access to >any charts. > >Charts can not be left lying on physicians desks, nursing stations, labs. >They have to be in locked file cabinets at the end of every day so no one can >have free access to them. >All items of paperwork that is not kept in those locked files, will need to >be shredded and discarded much the same way of hazardous waste! > >More than one physician has been sued and has LOST MANY, MANY dollars within >the past 1-3 years due to Confidential Patient Information (ie: such as lab >partials that were discarded in the garbage....hey, don't we all do that?) > >And that is some of the issues just for starters. >This is Onerous At Best and a total, expensive, impossible disaster at the >worst. > >No electronic data can be transmitted without an encryptation that is HIPPA >compliant ecrypted, whatever that is. Think of all those physicians using >PMR software, that have been using for many, many years, w/o problems it just >does the job for them and they have no desire or reason to change. They will >no longer be able to electronically transmit their claims as those softwares >are 90-95% of the time HIPPA NON-COMPLIANT. > >Please beware, this is NOT a physician friendly nor patient friendly >Regulation and Laws that we will all have to deal with soon. > >Falball > >
