Date	Event (up to 3 points each)	Identified Privacy Rule Principle(s) and describe why that principle is chosen. Use Chapter 11 as guide. (up to 7 points each)
July 18	Ms. Jones contacted the HIM department at St. John Hospital to request a copy of her medical records from her May hospital admission. The chart was copied for her by ReadyChart, the record-copying service utilized by St. John Hospital.
August 7	Ms. Jones returned to the HIM department at St. John Hospital and her May record indicated a possible drug overdose because it appeared from the documentation that it might have been intentional. She wanted her physician, Dr. Bridges, to change the incorrect records to reflect that the overdose was accidental.
October 30	She requested a copy of her medical records from a September admission that had been precipitated by infection of her prosthetic site. The new HIM manager in charge of correspondence, Don Day, stated that he was aware of a state statute that prohibited the release of medical records to patients without prior written approval of their attending physician. This has not been the practice at St. John Hospital. Mr. Day was concerned about the hospitals longstanding violation of state law. He suggested that correspondence requests (in which records would be released directly to patients) be suspended until the state law could be researched further.
November 10	Ms. Jones received a brochure and samples from Comfort Healthcare, a pharmaceutical company that manufactures ointment for patients with prostheses. Ms. Jones called the St. John Hospital registration desk to complain. Jessica Carter, a volunteer, took Ms. Jones call.
November 20	the physical therapy department at St. John Hospital is performing a correlational study to determine the effects of two different types of treatment that the physical therapy department has used with its above-knee amputation patients during the past two years. Ms. Jones received treatment from the St. John physical therapy department during her September admission.
November 29	Liberty Life and Health submitted a request to Dr. Lyons office (who Ms. Jones had seen for follow-up care), requesting copies of Ms. Jones medical records from her May St. John Hospital admission and from Dr. Lyons office.