Anticlue

Get the content authorized

Since we are on the topic of HIPAA, all content really needs an authorization structure in place before it is placed in public. This includes websites, newspaper articles, and submissions to journals. For example on of the larger blunders that can be experienced was outline in this medscape article.

<--- Snipped from article --->
The provision of uncropped electronic images that contain the patient's identifying information on them to a peer-reviewed medical journal, on the other hand, would violate the rule's prohibitions on using or disclosing PHI unless the disclosure is specifically permitted under the rule or the patient has specifically authorized in writing the disclosure to the journal. The uncropped electronic images meet the rule's definition of PHI, and the act of sending them to the peer-reviewed journal would fall within the rule's definition of disclosure.