Privacy and confidentiality

[mel69777]

I am in collage and have a question to ask about a problem.
my learning activity states, I am a HIM and a FBI agent is in my office with a search warrent and wants to talk to me about the hospitals medical records, How should I respond to this situation.??

[caregiver222]

Providing a false statement to a federal agent is a prosecutable crime, punishable by seven years imprisonment. Under current guidelines such sentencing is mandatory. I might add, this is not the case with other law enforcement officers. Destroying records will end you up in a federal penitentiary. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.  I have no idea whether your post is a joke, but clearly, in any hospital I have worked in,l the legal department would have been served before they walked into your office. If the warrant, issued by a Federal Judge,  is for the specific records of a specific individual, the hospital must provide such records. Generally, the procedure is to contact the legal department of the hospital, who will address the situation, and provide you with instructions. There are warrants and there is a document called a subpoena duces tecum. If properly obtained, and not contested, they supercede privacy rights..

[M_Pounce]

Call your supervisor and defer the agent to management.

[ticked]

I dont get it.  Are you a he or she?  Did you have surgery to change your sex?  Who is asking for this information the FBI or the College?