The use of a whiteboard to organize nursing assignments per shift or to give patients information about their practitioners and/or diagnosis is a violation of:

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HIPAA was enacted to safeguard medical information.Some previously accepted methods for the organization of patient information have now fallen under what is considered to be HIPAA violations (such as the use of the whiteboard listed above),as they provide a means for others to access private medical information about individual patient care.Examples of HIPAA violations include: the use of whiteboards to organize shift assignments and nursing organizational charts (used to organize patient treatments,diagnoses,etc.).

The Use of a Whiteboard to Organize Nursing Assignments Per