[Emergency-response] Can we enter names of survivors

[aknuckles at cox-internet.com]

I know that the New HIPPA laws only apply to medical issues.  I don't think that there is any problem in entering these names although I'm not an expert on this issue.

Alan Knuckles
> 
> From: Vicki Reeves <vickir at beau.org>
> Date: 2005/09/04 Sun AM 08:52:03 CDT
> To: emergency-response at beau.org
> Subject: [Emergency-response] Can we enter names of survivors
> 
> Someone brought a list of people who are in our shelters to the
> Library.  These names are not in the Red Cross or any of the other
> databases.  We have volunteers who would love to start entering them. 
> Does anyone know if there are any privacy issues?  Do we need to ask
> each person for permission or can we just start entering them?
> 
> Right now what we are doing with the list is offering to take a message
> to the appropriate shelter if the name the caller is asking for is on
> our list.
> 
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