HIPAA Privacy and Confidentiality of Client Information

Makes every employee and volunteer protect clients' health information as the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the MI Choice confidentiality standard and the Home Help operating standards require: a designated privacy official, a Notice of Privacy Practices with a signed acknowledgment, uses and disclosures only for treatment, payment, operations or as the law allows, written authorization for anything else, the client's rights to access, amendment, an accounting, restrictions and confidential communications, a record of every release, workforce training, sanctions, complaints without retaliation, and six-year documentation. It also sets the everyday rules caregivers follow in clients' homes.