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Family and Friends: Should I Tell? Mary is a health information… Family and Friends: Should I Tell?Mary is a health information management (HIM) student on a clinical practice rotation in an acute care hospital in her own community. This week she is learning about the release-of-information process. At the breakfast table this morning, Mary’s mother asks her to find out what is wrong with Ruth, their next-door neighbor. Ruth has been admitted to the hospital twice in the last three months, and her mother wants to know why. While processing the requests for release of information that afternoon, Mary comes across one from Ruth’s insurance company. Mary learns that Ruth was hospitalized due to physical abuse by her husband. Mary has been in trouble with her mother recently. She knows that if she tells her mother this information, she will score “big points,” and she is very tempted to do that. Later that same day, while responding to another request for information, Mary realizes that the medical record she is reviewing belongs to Ron, her best friend’s fiancé. Mary learns that Ron has a drug abuse problem and was recently diagnosed with HIV disease. Mary will be the maid of honor at the wedding of Ron and Patricia two months from now, and she knows that Patricia does not know about Ron’s problems. Mary becomes really worried and wonders whether she should tell her best friend what she has learned, since Ron’s conditions could definitely affect Patricia’s health and the quality of her married life.Answer the following questions in 3-4 sentences each:What should HIM professionals do when family or friends ask them for information about others or when they discover things about people they know during the process of doing their work? Does Mary have the right to reveal this information to others? In the situation regarding Mary’s friend Patricia, and Patricia’s fiance Ron, would Mary be more justified in revealing patient information than in the previous situation regarding the next-door neighbor? Why or why not? Would Mary be more justified in revealing patient information if Patricia was not her best friend, but her sister?  Why or why not? Why are privacy and confidentiality so important to patients who receive care and to those who provide care? Why should they be important to the HIM professionals who are entrusted to protect patient information? 5.    What are the exceptions to the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s authorization requirement? Do the exceptions minimize patient privacy? 6.    What is the “Red Flags” rule?7.    Please visit the website http://bok.ahima.org/doc?oid=105098#.WOWOujffQWU to view the AHIMA Code of Ethics. (There is also a copy of the Code of Ethics in the “Ch. 9 Supplemental Resources” module on Canvas.) Describe the purpose for the AHIMA Code of Ethics.  Which principle do you feel is most applicable in the above scenario? Health Science Science Nursing PSY* 100 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)

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