School Bus

A school bus has overturned, and 30 elementary school children are rushed to your hospital. Some are in serious condition, some are dead when they arrive at the hospital, and some have merely cut and bruises and will be released shortly. As the person the hospital has designated the contact person regarding patients involved in this terrible accident, from whom would you likely receive requests for information about these children and their condition? To whom would you disclose PHI and to whom would you not disclose PHI? Why? Choose: 1. Obtaining the individual’s agreement to the disclosure 2. Providing the individual with a specific opportunity to object to the disclosure, and the individual does not express an objection to the disclosure 3.Reasonably inferring from the circumstances, based on the exercise of professional judgment, that the individual does not object to the disclosure