MCN’s customizable template, Photographing/Videotaping Patients, is taken from our Outpatient Surgery and Ambulatory Services Policy and Procedure Manual. MCN Healthcare’s proven policy and procedure templates, competencies and compliance tools have assisted more than 20,000 health care organizations worldwide meet their regulatory compliance goals.

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Here is some sample content from Photographing/Videotaping Patients:

	POLICY: It is the policy of this facility to take photographs and/or film or video tape in an effort to assist educational, treatment, research, scientific, public relations and charitable goals of the institution; and to document certain physical conditions when it may be of benefit to the patient's plan of care and treatment. Photographs, films and/or videotape made for the purposes of identification, diagnosis or treatment of the patient do not require patient consent. Photography, filming or videotaping to be used internally by the organization for educational or operational purposes...
Second excerpt:
	...individuals who perform photography, filming or videotaping must sign an appropriate confidentiality commitment. POLICY: It is the policy of that a photograph shall be taken of all pressure ulcers on admission or if one develops in this facility for medication treatment. The tenets of this policy are understood to include in the identification, diagnosis and treatment of the patient the documentation of pressure ulceration of the patient and/or in incidents of actual or suspected...