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Physicians, nurses, therapists, dietitians, and others use confidential information about patients to determine how to treat them, but they are not the only ones who access such data. Coders and billing department employees use confidential information to bill patients, their insurance companies, Medicare, or Medicaid for services. Staff performing quality assurance or performance improvement activities review confidential information to make sure patients are receiving high-quality care.

Every ED deals with difficult cases. Regardless of the ED’s capacity to deal with an emergent medical condition or with a noncompliant patient, it’s important to be able to show how staff dealt with each patient on a case-by-case basis.

 The Court of Appeals of Ohio in the Sixth Appellate District (the “Court”) reversed a trial court’s judgment ordering a hospital to turn over documents within a physician’s credentialing file as part of a negligent credentialing lawsuit.

With massive data breaches rocking industries and the public, and policymakers scrutinizing how organizations respond, it’s time to dust off policies and ensure organizations have meaningful, compliant reporting and response plans.

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