more hippa questions

[Guest guest]

it seems to me the privacy issue is paramount for practitioners who are not

involved in insurance issues. One question that pops into my head is this--i

often send faxes to Kamwo for herbal prescriptions for patients. They pick

them up off their fax machine and fill them, and the patient comes and gets

the formula. I would imagine privacy issues come into play here. Does Kamwo

and all its employees need to sign a confidentiality form? If so, where does

the confidentiality form come from? Is there a standard one out there?

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I don't know the answer to your question. I thought I would add something about

prescriptions. It would seem in western medicine that prescriptions would equal

herbs and diet reccomendations in TCM. My mother was recently a victim of a bad

prescription that sent her to the hospital with a colon infection. Western

medicine has treated 'untreatable' and other diseases with drugs. The dosage for

these medications have been large, multi tablet medication per day. Sometimes

the dosage is too large on a daily basis and other problems relating to drying

of organs happens. Powders are not always redily absorbed by the body and it

takes alot of moisture to manage the chemicals and powders. TCM might prescribe

different herbs, but these too need water to work properly. It seems that the

medication or herb taken at the correct time for each persons metabolism would

work the best. Even a small amount placed under the tounge can help heal.

Ideally this is all you would need, and it is up to the patient sometimes to

help in the healing process by seeing the doctor at the right time. TCM is best

when used as preventative medicine, where only a few treatments might turn the

tide of the disease.

acugirlnyc wrote:it seems to me the privacy issue is paramount for

practitioners who are not

involved in insurance issues. One question that pops into my head is this--i

often send faxes to Kamwo for herbal prescriptions for patients. They pick

them up off their fax machine and fill them, and the patient comes and gets

the formula. I would imagine privacy issues come into play here. Does Kamwo

and all its employees need to sign a confidentiality form? If so, where does

the confidentiality form come from? Is there a standard one out there?