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Compliance:

Help Your Practice Battle Potential Privacy Breaches by Making Disclosure Easy

Published on Fri Dec 13, 2019

Remember that patient care is always your top priority. Incidental use — also known as incidental disclosure — is disclosure of a patient’s protected health information (PHI) to someone who’s not supposed to have it, but it’s incidental to performing your day-to-day operations. For example, a patient might overhear a conversation in an adjoining room between a physician and another [...]
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