Sentences with phrase «directory of medical providers»

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The NPRM addressed the issue of potential danger to patients by stating that when patients were incapacitated, covered health care providers could exercise discretion — consistent with good medical practice and prior expression of patient preference — regarding whether to disclose protected health information for directory purposes.

Whereas the NPRM would have allowed health care providers to disclose an incapacitated patient's information to the facility's directory «at its discretion and consistent with good medical practice and any prior expressions of preference of which the covered entity [was] aware,» the final rule states that in these situations (and in other emergency treatment circumstances), covered health care providers must make the decision on whether to include the patient's information in the facility's directory in accordance with professional judgment as to the patient's best interest.