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HIT-001 · Question #143
It is time for your medical practice's annual spring cleaning. Your employer has instructed you that all medical records belonging to patients who haven't been a part of the practice for at least…
The correct answer is B. Both B, C. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
It is time for your medical practice's annual spring cleaning. Your employer has instructed you that all medical records belonging to patients who haven't been a part of the practice for at least five years need to be destroyed. Many of those patients were charted using paper medical records, before the practice adopted its current EMR system. Under the privacy laws, what can you do?
Options
- ADump them in the dumpster behind the practice.
- BBoth B, C.
- CSecuring the records until an outside vendor who has a BAA with you can pick them up to destroy
- DShredding them yourself.
How the community answered
(16 responses)- A13% (2)
- B75% (12)
- C6% (1)
- D6% (1)
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