I have been around EMS all my life. I've seen ambulances diverted to more serious patients numerous times. I have NEVER seen an ambulance diverted from a critical patient to a non-critical patient with a broken bone.
This is the heavily redacted EMS Bureaus REPORT on a complaint I filed against the LMRFD. I've seen redacted documents before, and understand HIPPA laws, but not only identifiers were removed from this document, all identifiers, locations, and many times were redacted. WHY this isn't some secret military operation requiring times and locations to be redacted, it's an accident on a US highway.
This is my ORIGINAL COMPLAINT to the EMS Bureau without redaction
You tell me.... I understand not identifying a patients private information like in the identifiers listed below, name, DOB, address, and account numbers..... BUT when they redact words like him, he, wife, Kingman, locations like mile posts and mile post numbers, and arrival times for EMS.
It looks like someone is covering up something....
These are the HIPAA Identifiers that should be removed from medical documents.
HIPAA Safe Harbor standards, 18 identifiers associated with the patient, their household members, relatives and employers must be removed, including:
- Names
- All geographic subdivisions smaller than a state, including street addresses, cities, counties, precincts and ZIP codes
- All elements of dates (except year)
- Telephone numbers
- Fax numbers
- Email addresses
- Social Security numbers
- Medical record numbers
- Health plan beneficiary numbers
- Account numbers
- Certificate or license numbers
- Vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plate numbers
- Device identifiers and serial numbers
- Web URLs
- IP addresses
- Biometric identifiers, including finger and voice prints
- Full-face photographs and any comparable images
- Any other unique identifying number, characteristic or code
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