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Preserving privacy with a black marker pen
A local hospital notifies us when they've admitted some of our patients by faxing a list of names (normally three or four names at a time) to our office. We make a copy of the page for each patient's chart and then use a marker to black out the other names on the list before filing it. Does this practice violate privacy rules?
A local hospital notifies us when they've admitted some of our patients by faxing a list of names (normally three or four names at a time) to our office. We make a copy of the page for each patient's chart and then use a marker to black out the other names on the list before filing it. Does this practice violate privacy rules?
No, not as long as you obliterate the other names. Otherwise, a patient who requested a copy of his record would receive information about other admitted patients as well, and that would be a breach of confidentiality.
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