Case Study: Administrative Safeguards <br /> <br /> You are the technologist in charge of the hematology section in a hospital laboratory and you are reviewing blood count results for 100 patients as part of an internal quality assurance project. You review the clinical findings in the electronic medical record to correlate with the laboratory results. <br /> <br /> The following week, you get from HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations, presented by MediaLab

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Case Study: Administrative Safeguards

You are the technologist in charge of the hematology section in a hospital laboratory and you are reviewing blood count results for 100 patients as part of an internal quality assurance project. You review the clinical findings in the electronic medical record to correlate with the laboratory results.

The following week, you get a call from your hospital security officer. She says that a routine computer system audit has revealed that you accessed the records of 100 patients and she would like to know why.

You tell her:

More than one answer is correct. Please select all correct answers

	That she is interfering with your right to privacy.
	That you needed clinical information to correlate with the blood counts as part of your quality control program.
	That you are working with the laboratory manager and pathologist on this quality assurance project.
	That your are sorry, you will never do it again.

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