Medical Assistant Prep / Unit 28 MAS 679 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Incidental Disclosures and Safeguards
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The idea
Practices must reasonably safeguard health information to limit incidental disclosures that happen alongside permitted ones.
In practice
Lowering your voice, closing doors and positioning screens away from the waiting room are reasonable safeguards.
Where people slip
The rule expects reasonable effort, not perfection, but carelessness with patient information is never acceptable.
Your place on the trail
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