An Appropriate Approach to Maintaining Patient Confidentiality on the Computer

question 63

Multiple Choice

An appropriate approach to maintaining patient confidentiality on the computer is to ____.

• A) make sure a coworker knows your password in case you are sick
• B) allow former employees to keep their passwords
• C) change your password every 90 days
• D) provide each patient with a unique password
• E) send confidential information only by fax, never by computer

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