HIPPA and Patient Follow-up

["Jeff Brosius" <reno316@hotmail.com>]

Cross posted to several lists... if you get this more than once, then.... 
well.... get over it!  <g>

Anyone figure out a way to do follow-ups on patients brought in by EMS 
(ground or air) without violating the new Hippo - er, HIPPA - rules?  For 
the lawyers on the list, WOULD a patient follow-up request be a violation?  
Can we do this, or are follow-ups a thing of the past, relegated to the 
antiquities collection thanks to unexpected consequences of good-intentioned 
legislation reforms?

If anyone has input, I'm all ears.  Feel free to reply privately if you'd 
prefer.

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JRB

Jeff Brosius,
Paramedic, etc.
Atlanta, GA
www.prehospitalperspective.com
brosius@prehospitalperspective.com
"Nibblin' on sponge cake..."


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