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Lawyers, HIPAA and Common SenseThe complexity of HIPAA privacy rules may be the latest boon for lawyers, but health care providers can initially develop a common sense approach to privacy protection as their first line of defense. Nurses may already be aware of common workplace practices that could compromise patient privacy. For example, patient information may be easily visible to an outside visitor when a receptionist, nurse or doctor accesses it on a computer screen, located in a busy visitor reception area. At a larger clinic or hospital, it is common practice to list names of patients on the nurses’ station bulletin board. Common practices such as these need to be reexamined with fresh eyes attuned to privacy protection. While common sense may be the first line of defense, a more formal framework of analysis may be necessary over the long term, particularly for larger organizations and for those with unique privacy issues such as telemedicine practitioners.
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