hipaa

Hey everyone, A lot of my shadowing and another experience (which is one of my most meaningful experiences) includes work at a doctor's office in which I was once a patient. This fact is a huge part of my story, but I was wondering if mentioning I was once a patient at this office would count...

Basically what the title says. I wrote about a meaningful patient interaction I had in my personal statement, and I just now realized I accidentally used their real first name and the real first name of their daughter in my personal statement (first names only). I didn't mention the specific...

. Now that I've gotten my answer, I'm deleting the post.

Does anyone here have a good method for keeping their patient notes anonymous so if they are lost there is no HIPAA breach? In other words, I keep papers in my pockets for all of my patients. Of course I try to never lose track of one but I could see it happening in the hustle and bustle. I do...

A resident clinical supervisor instructed a group of students to enter the electronic medical record of a patient whose care they were not involved in. This was done so that another student's chart note could be used as a model for incorrect charting. The person who filed the HIPAA complaint did...

So I have already submitted my primary application, but I am worried about one of my activities that I wrote about. It was volunteering with individuals with mental disabilities. I used an individual's first name to talk about my experiences, which weren't at all medically related. I didn't...