Read the case below, and research the legal and ethical standards surrounding the issues from defendant side. View the video from the defendant(attached). In your 5 min speech, argue your decision in favor of defendant. Your 5-minute speech will explain the rationale behind your decision. APA format all references. TURNITIN report due with answer. Due 7/12/19 @10am Eastern Standard…read Ch 5 attached.

Case Study Below:

Hospital Implements New Minimum Necessary Policies for Telephone Messages

Covered Entity: General Hospital
Issue: Minimum Necessary; Confidential Communications

A hospital employee did not observe minimum necessary requirements when she left a telephone message with the daughter of a patient that detailed both her medical condition and treatment plan.  An OCR investigation also indicated that the confidential communications requirements were not followed, as the employee left the message at the patient’s home telephone number, despite the patient’s instructions to contact her through her work number. To resolve the issues in this case, the hospital developed and implemented several new procedures.  One addressed the issue of the minimum necessary information in the telephone message content.  Employees were trained to provide only the minimum necessary information in messages and were given specific direction as to what information could be left in a message. Employees also were trained to review registration information for patient contact directives regarding leaving messages.   The new procedures were incorporated into the standard staff privacy training, both as part of a refresher series and mandatory yearly compliance training.