View Full Version : Is it a hipaa violation to bring your children to your clinic while you see patients
lila1010
Nov 10, 2011, 04:25 PM
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?
J_9
Nov 10, 2011, 04:33 PM
As long as they are kept away from patient care areas and the waiting rooms it is okay.
AK lawyer
Nov 10, 2011, 05:07 PM
As long as they are kept away from patient care areas and the waiting rooms it is okay.
Children of employees can't be in patient waiting rooms but other patients can? A "HIPAA violation" would occur if other patients overheard health care info. Pertaining to a particular patient, sure. But only if such information "leaked". So, by the same token, it would only be a violation if the children heard such information.
Or are there other HIPAA regs. Which specifically prohibit employee children from being in a waiting room?
Fr_Chuck
Nov 10, 2011, 09:12 PM
They can be in many areas but not in the treatment area.
** one may argue about a child too young to understand anything but there should just not be there to start with.