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Re: Mentioning Patient's Name In A Dictation From: RModugno@aol.com Wed Jan 7 10:18:19 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "GEN: New Year. Same Ol' Stuff" Previous message: Dean Huffman: "Re: Mentioning Patient's Name In A Dictation" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman: "Mentioning Patient's Name In A Dictation" In a message dated 1/7/2004 11:49:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, huffmand@bronsonhg.org writes: > I have checked with two other hospitals. Both of them said that the > medical records department can make a rule that the patient's name not > appear in the text if they, but if they blame it on HIPPA, they are > either idiots or they are lying. I plan to call ACOG later on this and > see if they have any opinion. > > By the way, what does one do about other documents, such as prenatal > records, records from other hospitals if the patient is transferred, > etc., that have the patient's name already on the documents. Do we have > to put these documents in the shreader? If the patient's name is NOT on > the documents, how do we know that we have the CORRECT > patient? Dean - we have so much s--t to deal with - I wouldn't sweat about this. HIPAA says that any health provider who is providing care to a patient can have access to the medical record - therefore names do not have to be deleted from the chart, or previous records! Many people have lost their common sense when it comes to HIPAA - their are more myths than realities. You may want to check out the FAQs about HIPAA on the CMMS website. Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG Marietta, GA http://www.novaobgyn.yourmd.com Next message: art fougner, md: "GEN: New Year. Same Ol' Stuff" Previous message: Dean Huffman: "Re: Mentioning Patient's Name In A Dictation" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman: "Mentioning Patient's Name In A Dictation"

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