Jennifer works as a patient services at a medical office. He best friend, Darlee

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Jennifer works as a patient services at a medical office. He best friend, Darleen, is a dental assistant in the same area. Jennifer and Darleen use several of the same social networking serves. When one of Darleen's previous boyfriends comes in for an appointment at the medical office, Jennifer uses her private cell phone to copy the photo from his medical record to her social networking page and texts Darleen, saying, "Get ready, Guess who is here today "Barbecue Jennifer and Darleen are merely corresponding as usual, they do not feel they are violating patient privacy.

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HIPAA violation occur when confidentiality / privacy of Patient Health Information is compromised. In the above case, sharing a patient's photo from the hospital records without his consent is violation of HIPAA. This can be avoided by having passwords to the system and maintaining them confidential. Also only legitimate persons should have access to such a system. Systems should not be left unattended without logging off. Any paper records of patient should not be left unattended. Neither should patient information be discussed loud so that individuals with no rights can overhear them.

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