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Alteration In Health Care

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Let’s take Alteration of the patient history data for instance. If there was any tampering done with the medical records. This is considered as a criminal offense and can result in the physician to lose his medical license if found guilty of altering with the medical records This is considered as medical malpractice in the light of alteration, falsification and destruction of medical records by the physician. In this case the information in the History and the Physical examination of the patient was altered from “no known allergies” to “patient denies any drug allergies”. This was noticed by the HIM clerk and he immediately reported the same to the HIM director. The patient suffered from severe allergic reaction as the physician who took the

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