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capturing her face!” How do you respond to this
situation?
Apply Your Knowledge
Anna owns a document scanning business and has hired 12
16-year-old students from the local high school to help
with document scanning. The majority of the scan jobs
that they do typically consist of business documents. They
take the documents, scan them in by hand, page by page,
and then import them to CD. When there is a paper
problem, they copy the original and then discard it, using
the copy.
Anna has just been contracted by Low Mountain
Health Center to scan old patient records onto CDs. She
is excited. The 100 boxes of medical records arrive within
1 week of signing the contract, and Anna immediately puts
them in the scanning storage to be done ASAP. The
students begin to work with these records without any
further training.
Consider the following as you use the ETHICAL
model to analyze the case:
1. What is the problem? (Clearly state the problem)
2. What are the ethical issues involved?
3. Assess the ethical principles, which ones would guide
you in this case?
4. Determine three alternatives for Anna that would
bring her into HIPAA compliance.
5. What are the consequences for each alternative you
generated?