This customizable document, Health Data Integrity, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Leadership Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

MCN provides more than 80 health care specific policy and procedure manuals for Acute Care Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health, Home Health, Physician Practice, and Long Term Care. MCN’s policy and procedure manuals focus on the latest healthcare "hot topic" issues related to patient safety and prevention of medical healthcare errors.

Here is some sample content from Health Data Integrity:

	POLICY: Hospital shall protect the privacy of individual identifiable health information. Believing that confidentiality is essential in developing the trust between patients and their providers of healthcare, we are committed to ensuring that patient medical information be disclosed only with informed consent or by statute. PROCEDURE: The Information Management Committee is responsible for the development of organizational standards, policies and procedures concerning timeliness, accuracy, security, privacy and confidentiality, access, integrity and uniformity of data of both paper and...
Second excerpt:
	...and Responsibilities. Access to Medical Records: Access to medical records by the patient or their legal representative is allowed as per law and is detailed in supporting policies and procedures. Access to health information contained in the medical record is allowable without the patient or his/her representative's permission in specific instances pursuant to national priority issues, as described in the HIPAA regulations detailed in the Federal Register. Accounting of Disclosures: ...