“Healthcare providers should supply patients with layered and easy to understand notices of how their information will be used and protected when it is exchanged, says an advisory panel of the Health & Human Services Department.
Physicians should include this description in a short summary in the privacy practices notice that is required by HIPAA, and that patients receive and sign at office visits, the panel concluded at an Oct. 15 meeting. But more detailed information exchange explanations should be readily available to patients.”
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News, 19 October 2010
