Confidential Patient Care Information includes: Any individually information in possession or derived from a provider of health care regarding a patient's medical history, mental, or physical condition or treatment, as well as the patients and/or their family members records, test results, conversations, research records and financial information. (Note: this information is defined in the privacy rule as "protected health information".) Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Physical medical and psychiatric records including paper, photo, video, diagnostic and therapeutic reports, laboratory and pathology samples;
- Patient insurance and billing records;
- Mainframe and department based computerized patient data and alphanumeric radio pager messaged;
- Visual observation of patients receiving medical care or accessing services; and
- Verbal information provided by or about a patient.