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Provide two examples of incidental disclosures

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-Confidential conversations between providers or with patients, if a possibility exists that they may be overheard
-Seeing other patients' names when signing in
-Person not authorized to see PHI walks by medical equipment and sees material containing individually identifiable health information
-Physicians speaking with patients in semiprivate hospital rooms
-Healthcare staff orally coordinating patient care services at a nurses' station or central location in an office
-A pharmacist discussing a patient with a physician on the phone when another person is standing nearby
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