Ms. Marie, a health information department staffmember at New Directions Medical

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Ms. Marie, a health information department staffmember at New Directions Medical Center, re-ceived a call from the emergency room at St. John’sHospital requesting that all previous records for apatient named Sally Smith be faxed them immedi-ately. (Sally Smith was a health information de-partment staff member at New Directions, and sheresigned last year to return to college full-time.) Be-cause of the urgency of her medical condition,Sally Smith is being taken to the surgery suite im-mediately. Ms. Marie knows Sally’s family and is considering calling Sally’s sister. What action should Ms. Marie take?

Explanation / Answer

We know that Protected health information is maitained by the individual who work in health settings. The information are kept confident. But it disclosed by them when they getting the request. Here there are certian cases the authorization are needed for the disclosure of the information. But here Mr. sally is urgency of the medical condition. So here The authorization are not required becuase sally have serious. So Ms. Marry can disclose or faxed the details of saaly. But she must kep the tracking of the PHI. That is,

1. Date of disclosure

2. name and adress of the entity Who recieved the PHI

3. Description the condition of PHI is disclosed

4. Statement of the reason for disclosure

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