Using a whiteboard to organize nursing assignments per shift or to provide patients information about their practitioner or diagnosis is a violation of which of the following?
a. Civil law c. HIPAA
b. Tort law d. OSHA
C
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to safeguard medical
information. Some previous methods for patient care organization fall under what is now considered to
be HIPAA violations because they provide a means for others to access private information about
patients' care. Examples of HIPAA violation include the use of whiteboards to organize shift
assignments and nursing organizational charts (used to organize patient treatments, diagnoses, etc.). If
used, they must be destroyed when they are no longer needed.
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