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Pocket This Advice on How to Properly Dispose of PHI

Published on Wed Aug 03, 2022

Question: We have some student helpers working at our practice this summer. We were going to have them dispose of records for patients that are no longer at our practice. Is there a specific way to go about this kind of records’ purge? Do they need to be trained? Ohio Subscriber Answer: Actually, there are specific examples outlined by the HHS Office [...]
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