Re: HIPPA and Patient Follow-up

["Linda J. Wise" <lwise@mail.mcg.edu>]

On interfacility transports we send followups to teh referring md's
which is allowed under HIPPA because it involves continuation of care
that the baby will receive upon discharge.   
Linda Wise, RN


>>> reno316@hotmail.com 04/05/03 07:52 AM >>>
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.

------------
JRB

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


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