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Discussion Post: HIPAA, Patient Rights, and Medical Social Worker Dilemmas

As a patient in a healthcare setting, you have likely been given a HIPAA form to sign, either in hard copy or electronically. But what is HIPAA actually all about?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) gives patients the right to access their own medical records and ensures that identifiable health information is not shared without their written consent. In their practice, medical social workers must abide by HIPAA guidelines and policies and are often called upon to educate patients and families about these regulations as well. The disclosure of health information, and the circumstances in which such disclosure may be appropriate or inappropriate, can spark dilemmas for medical social workers. In this Discussion, you work through a particular dilemma as you familiarize yourself with HIPAA guidelines.

To prepare:

1) Review the Learning Resources on HIPAA and ethics surrounding record keeping and confidentiality.

2) Access the Case Studies interactive media in the Learning Resources and navigate to Week 10. Read all three cases, and then choose one on which to focus your Discussion.

3) With the case in mind, revisit HIPAA guidelines. Consider how HIPAA applies and what a medical social worker should do to address the situation.

4) Reflect on the questions associated with your chosen case.

Task

Post a brief description of a medical social worker's responsibilities under HIPAA guidelines that apply to the case you selected. Then, answer the questions associated with your chosen case, providing justification for your responses.

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