tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 26

Compliance: Take These Steps To Steer Visitors Away From PHI

You can open your organization to visitors -- here's how. Whether you allow anyone to look around your organization, or you only open your doors for job shadowers and other trainees, you must figure out how to deal effectively with visitors without risking your facility's privacy and security rule compliance. Follow these steps to keep your patients' protected health information private when non-workforce members are present: 1. Separate visitors into categories. You can't work with visitors as a lump group, says Kelley Meeusen, compliance officer for Harrison Hospital in Bremerton, WA. Better approach: Your vendors and consultants can go...

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