HIPAA Alert: Are You an MHS Employee & Patient? NEVER Edit or Schedule for Yourself in Cerner

REMINDER: MHS employees must know and follow HIPAA privacy regulations, including those forbidding employees from editing or updating their own electronic health records or those of family members, including minor children. It is also a HIPAA violation to schedule your own medical appointments in Cerner.

If You Are an MHS Employee and an MHS Patient:

• You are never authorized to edit or update your own electronic health record in Cerner -- or those of your family members, including your minor children. In addition, this means never using Cerner to schedule appointments for yourself or a loved one.   

• You have the same options as our other patients to update medical information or make an appointment: 1) Contact your care provider via phone, or 2) Contact your care provider via the patient portal at my.Bestcare.org.

• Methodist's FairWarning privacy monitoring software automatically sends alerts on all employees who use Cerner to make changes or schedule appointments in their own or their family members’ electronic health records.

• Supervisors are automatically alerted to all employee violations of Methodist policy, and staff will be disciplined according to current HR policies.

Questions?

Contact HIPAA Privacy Officer Zorana Vojnovic at (402) 354-6863 or @email.

See the "Accessing Your Own Medical Record" policy on mhsintranet, or click here.

Attention, Supervisors:

Please post this HIPAA Alert and discuss in your staff meetings.