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by Mandy Kachur
Have you ever been in a pin-drop quiet medical waiting room or pharmacy and needed to discuss your medical condition with a person behind the counter? Was it uncomfortable because you knew others in the room could hear you? Technically, this is a situation ripe for HIPAA speech privacy problems, where bystanders are able to overhear your medical conversations.
This situation happens. For example, a pharmacist can violate speech privacy laws by
Mandy Kachur, Soundscape Engineering LLC partner and Principal consultant, recently returned from Washing D.C., where she was participating in the working group, led by the Center for Health Design, that has been tasked with the development, dissemination, and validation of a 'Patient and Worker Safety Risk Assessment' online toolkit that can be used by health care facility planners, owners, and design teams to improve facilities through Evidence Based Design. Noise control is...