A home healthcare case manager often receives documents that pertain to the care of clients on a shared fax machine.The case manager is aware of how important it is to protect each client's health information.Which action by the nurse ensures that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)requirements are met in this situation?

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A) Case manager nurses need to maintain vigilance to protect the privacy of client healthcare information when sending and receiving messages. In this case, having the sending agency call prior to faxing information would alert the nurse to collect the information from the fax machine at the time it is received, securing that information so others would not have access to it. Signing a consent form for information to be released is necessary to share information, but this would ensure only the disclosure aspect of HIPAA-not the privacy aspect. Sending information through the mail takes time and does not ensure the privacy of the information. Taking information over the phone must be done in a way that is protected and secured in order to ensure that HIPAA privacy aspects have not been breached.
B) Case manager nurses need to maintain vigilance to protect the privacy of client healthcare information when sending and receiving messages. In this case, having the sending agency call prior to faxing information would alert the nurse to collect the information from the fax machine at the time it is received, securing that information so others would not have access to it. Signing a consent form for information to be released is necessary to share information, but this would ensure only the disclosure aspect of HIPAA-not the privacy aspect. Sending information through the mail takes time and does not ensure the privacy of the information. Taking information over the phone must be done in a way that is protected and secured in order to ensure that HIPAA privacy aspects have not been breached.
C) Case manager nurses need to maintain vigilance to protect the privacy of client healthcare information when sending and receiving messages. In this case, having the sending agency call prior to faxing information would alert the nurse to collect the information from the fax machine at the time it is received, securing that information so others would not have access to it. Signing a consent form for information to be released is necessary to share information, but this would ensure only the disclosure aspect of HIPAA-not the privacy aspect. Sending information through the mail takes time and does not ensure the privacy of the information. Taking information over the phone must be done in a way that is protected and secured in order to ensure that HIPAA privacy aspects have not been breached.
D) Case manager nurses need to maintain vigilance to protect the privacy of client healthcare information when sending and receiving messages. In this case, having the sending agency call prior to faxing information would alert the nurse to collect the information from the fax machine at the time it is received, securing that information so others would not have access to it. Signing a consent form for information to be released is necessary to share information, but this would ensure only the disclosure aspect of HIPAA-not the privacy aspect. Sending information through the mail takes time and does not ensure the privacy of the information. Taking information over the phone must be done in a way that is protected and secured in order to ensure that HIPAA privacy aspects have not been breached.

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