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Thank you for the response, it was helpful. Considering the experiences I have had previously with the personnel at this specific hospital, I wouldn't be surprised if this privacy officer was...

I agree with you.

I also got to thinking... you know how they always have you sign a multitude of paperwork, do you think OP signed something allowing disclosure unknowlingly? Did she provide them...

How incredibly mature of you. Do you have your head so far up your that you can't see what's truly going on? This administration is scary. I have disagreed, obviously, with presidents, senators,...

Not necessarily true.

DCF could fall under the clearinghouse rule "This includes entities that process nonstandard health information they receive from another entity into a standard (i.e.,...

Thank you!

I don't want anyone to get into a heap of trouble, I am just very concerned for my son's safety. I want to prevent this from happening again, ending in something unimaginable happening....

Thank you for this information! Do you know if this applies to in-patient only or if it applies to any and all entity under the hospital umbrella?

This hospital is a joke and the privacy officer...

I wonder why the hospital privacy officer confirmed it as a HIPAA violation and wrote up an incident report?

No, they did not give out any medical information. They did acknowledge him being a patient, which the privacy offcer said was wrong of them.

They are supposed to neither confirm nor deny he is...

I couldn't have said it better myself. I completely agree.

The "gimme gimme gimme" mentality will lead us down a road that is far worse than the one we're on now, it already it. When healthcare,...

Forgive me if I am wrong but I do believe it is a HIPAA violation to re-distribute medical records obtained from physicians/hospitals/etc. So, if DCF re-released protected health information your...

My husband and I took our 1 year old son to the local hospital Emergency Room last night. My mother in law knew we might take him and when she couldn't get ahold of us via phone, she assumed we were...