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I work in a health care facility that contains a medical, dental and behavioral health department.  One our employees found a social security card and knew that it did not belong to an employee,
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HIPPA Violation?

posted at 8/29/2012 10:44 AM EDT on Workforce Management
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I work in a health care facility that contains a medical, dental and behavioral health department.  One our employees found a social security card and knew that it did not belong to an employee, therefore she paged the person on our paging system in order to locate them to give them their card.  My question is, since we are a health care facility, is it a HIPPA violation to announce their name over the intercom?

My initial thoughts is no because patients wouldn't know if we were paging a patient or employee and also, no other information about them was stated, but I would like to know the opinion of others.


Thanks in Advance.
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posted at 8/30/2012 3:15 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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In Response to HIPPA Violation?:
I work in a health care facility that contains a medical, dental and behavioral health department.  One our employees found a social security card and knew that it did not belong to an employee, therefore she paged the person on our paging system in order to locate them to give them their card.  My question is, since we are a health care facility, is it a HIPPA violation to announce their name over the intercom? My initial thoughts is no because patients wouldn't know if we were paging a patient or employee and also, no other information about them was stated, but I would like to know the opinion of others. Thanks in Advance.
Posted by Rayvene1


Follow your initial thoughts. This is nowhere close to a violation.
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Re: HIPPA Violation?

posted at 8/31/2012 2:43 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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Absolutely not. Names are public knowledge.  I think you're being overly sensitive to privacy rights here.
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Re: HIPPA Violation?

posted at 9/4/2012 4:26 AM EDT on Workforce Management
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Nork4 is right this guy is becoming over seneitive in the privacy rights matter. 
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Re: HIPPA Violation?

posted at 9/19/2012 1:09 PM EDT on Workforce Management
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Well let us start with the correct acronym - HIPAA.  I agree, nowhere close to a violation. The person was most likely pleased to be paged considering you had their soc. sec. card. 
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