Is it a HIPAA violation for a hygienist to remove a patients chart from the premises?

If a medical provider needs to bring their children to that provider's workplace, (this is a business owner),is it a hipaa violation for those children to stay in the clinic during the day?

This is a Home Health Agency. I have heard that a nurse was carrying in a lot of loose papers and a gust of wind came up and blew numerous notes and patient plan of cares all over the place. Someonme found one of these and turned them in. They were fined nearly $20,000.00. Can the Administrator...

I am the Supervisor of a POL. One of the employees of the X-Ray department asked me for a copy of her Mother's lab results. I refused, citing HIPAA regulations. The employee became very disruptive but I still refused to comply with her request. Because our facility has no clear protocol for...

I went into the Hospital for a minor procedure. After being admitted a "volunteer" walked me to the surgery waiting area. While walking she looked at my papaer work to see what procedures I was having done then stated "Oh your having a mass removed from your breast" then continued to tell me how...

MY former employer insists that the nurses stay on the floor with the patients and take their charting with them. The nursing staff is very uncomfortable doing this as they feel it is a hippa violation to take the charting, assessments, etc. Out on the floor with the patients all around. The...