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Patient Privacy:

Determine Whether New HIPAA Update Impacts Your Rights to Discuss Patients' Opioid Issues

Published on Fri Jan 05, 2018

Do you know who you can share this information with? As emergency department providers struggle to help patients fighting opioid addiction, it can be confusing to evaluate whether friends and family members have a right to know about patients' conditions. However, recent federal determinations address some of the privacy issues surrounding these conditions, which can help EDs evaluate when they [...]
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