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Healthcare/Legal Professionals familiar w/hipaa, please help?
I work for a group of GI docs here in Saint Louis, MO. Is it legal to communicate with patients via e-mail regarding medical information and questions? And what kind of restricitions and requirements and saftey precautions if any are needed?
and Would it be ok to continue e-mail if the pt initialy contacts you via e-mail? We are thinking about putting my e-mail on business cards that we will give out to pcps to have them call or e-mail me directly, since I play phone tag with quite a few pt’s over the duration of one day. I really do appreciate the seriousness and knowladge you all have shared with me, that is kind of rare to have happen on YA. And maybe I should state, by GI docs I mean gastrointestional. The fun* kind of docs.
*joking.
It is my understanding that with e-mail, as with any form of communication, the doctors must have a permission document signed by the patient. Such a document would list how the patient preferred communication, mail, fax, e-mail, home phone, work phone, cell phone, could messages be left on voice mail, and could other people in the residence be allowed to take a message. The document would also contain a disclaimer that the patient was responsible for notifying the doctor/office for any changes in the above information. Patient must sign and date document.
IF your patients sign for e-mail communication, the e-mail message must contain a disclaimer that states that the message is intended for the above named recipient and any access for people other the the named recipient would be a violation of the law. Or some other disclaimer that states the message is for this person, no one else, no other person should read it.
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