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After graduation you started a job as a Patient Accounts Specialist at a local physician's office. A large part of your job responsibilities are to ensure the privacy and confidentiality regulations required by HIPAA are maintained for each patient. A friend of yours is a patient at the practice you work at. You noticed that she recently came in for an emergency visit.

2. Initial Post: Create a new thread and answer all three parts of the initial prompt below

1. You see your friend's sister, Sharon, at the grocery store and she mentions that her sister hasn't been feeling well. Explain why it is or is not acceptable to tell Sharon that her sister had been to the doctor's office.
2. Describe what could happen if you share your friend's confidential information with her sister.
3. You decide to tell Sharon that her sister had been to the office to see the doctor. Explain whether revealing this information is considered a breach of confidentiality.