Potential privacy violation Competency 11.2 On 11/23/19, the mayor of your town was seen in your emergency department and subsequently admitted with injuries that included an orbital floor blow-out fracture and multiple bruises until discharge on the 26th.

Chapter 2 2.3 Potential privacy violation Competency 11.2 On 11/23/19, the mayor of your town was seen in your emergency department and subsequently admitted with injuries that included an orbital floor blow-out fracture and multiple bruises until discharge on the 26th. Past rumors have hinted that the mayor is in an abusive relationship and speculation is rampant that these injuries are a result of abuse. Since the incident, local newspa- pers have printed health information that should not be available to them. To address a potential privacy breach, the IT department ran an audit trail to see who had accessed the patient’s records. Five employees in the HIM department accessed the record, and you are tasked with determining if any of them violated the privacy policy. At this facility, records are still hybrid. The employees are: N. Northwest, coder day bugg jet cobalt vinoylb to Drumtoo went lost in chinahi L. Easton, coder S. Southward, transcriptionist E. Downey, file clerk editsb adi ind nounoube odd To insteon or lotter momurges solo W. Upton, file clerk Following is the audit trail you were given from IT. Audit Trail for MR#655966 User Date N. Northwest 11/28/2019 S. Southward 11/27/2019 L. Easton 11/26/2019 E. Downey 11/24/2019 W. Upton 11/29/2019 What other relevant elements will you ask IT to include in the audit trail? Resources Rinehart-Thompson, L. A. 2018. HIPAA Security Rule Concepts. Chapter 4 in Introduction to Health Information Privacy and Security, 2nd ed. Chicago: AHIMA. Walsh, T. and W. M. Miaoulis, 2014. Practice Brief: Privacy and security audits of electronic health information. Journal of AHIMA 85(3): 54-59.