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HIPAA preventing crime reporting? |
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According to spokespersons for a Michigan hospital, HIPAA requirements prevented hospital officials from reporting sexual assault cases to the police until four hours after the victim reported it. The alleged attacker, a former contract employee at the hospital, is accused of sexually assaulting a total of four female patients at the hospital during the month of November. Under HIPAA the hospital officials first needed to obtain permission from the victims before turning over information to the police. Read the story here.
In other HIPAA news . . .
Hospitals are jumping on the HIPAA bandwagon by using pre-defined security templates in attempts to implement HIPAA privacy and security requirements. Yahoo! Finance reports in a Phoenix Health Systems press release that over 100 hospitals have implemented such templates already.
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