#vaccination drive

[applesauce365]

#like a dog #ngoindia #dog lover #cat lovers #vaccination #vaccine #vaccination drive #dvm #vmd #veterinary #vet life #Kolkata

[ricisidro]

Chikiting Ligtas, pabakunahan ang inyong mga anak kontra polio, rubella, at tigdas ngayong May 1-31, 2023!

#DOH #ChikitingLigtas

#GetVaccinated

#HealthyPilipinas

#DOH #vaccine #measles #rubella #polio #vaccination drive #Instagram

[arctic-hands]

My parents were not nice and didn't handle having a disabled child even remotely well, and even tho things are better between us now I still doubt their claims of unconditional love for me,

But at the very least they cared enough about me to vaccinate me against measles

#measels #anti vaxxers kiss my crohnsy ass challenge #as much as my parents are to blame for a lot of things they aren't responsible for my nearly dying of shingles at sixteen either #the chickenpox vaccine wasn't invented until after i was born and by the time it became a regularly offered recommended vax #i had already caught it bc someone thought it was o.k to send their obviously poxxed child to daycare anyway when i was ten #it was mild then but fast-forward 6 years later my immune system collapses and I'm 2 hours 2 death by the time the hospital admits me #and my hometown hospital wouldn't even let me into the e.r with 'just chickenpox' so we had to drive 2 hours to Indy's children's hospital #where i must repeat they told my mom had she just waited another two hours to make the drive i would have been D.O.A #anyway #vaccinate your kids #measles

[race-week]

I really hate the people who choose to come into the office when they are ill.

The company I work for are really good about flexible working and working from home, but there are still people who will come into work sick and then proceed to spread it around the office

Thanks to them, I have covid again

#it drives me up a wall #when I’m sick I basically hole myself up and avoid everyone #I’m fully vaccinated and do everything I can to avoid getting sick only for someone at work to come in and cough all over me

[freebooter4ever]

lying on the floor having an existential crisis as a puddle

#freebooter4ever #i am soaked there isnt a dry bone in my body #but its supposed to rain all day so #i am debating whether the traffic danger is worth it or not to drive to figure drawing tonight #leaning towards no because i also still have a full week before my vaccine kicks in #best to stay in and work for another week i think just to be safe #it freaked me out when my friend brian got covid #like he has survived all three years without getting it and he is in a service industry job so lots of contact with people #if he finally got it NOW cases must be high #and *paul* is coming to visit and i want to be healthy and vaccinated for when he is here bc who knows what he got from international trave

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Fevers are cool except when they happen to me

#not snz #i am suffering tho #me and a couple of the coworkers went to get the new vaccines at lunch #were we all slightly in pain for the rest of the day? yes #was it worth it? also yes #but god it was miserable a few hours in #I'm used to being able to take pain meds when i get a headache but Not This Time #luckily i didn't have to drive myself home lmao #hate my coworkers (affectionate) they hit all of us in the arm bc they thought it was hilarious #i did get my forehead felt while i was sitting on the ground tho bc i 'looked flushed' so that did something to me #anyway I'm home now so at least i just get to lay on my bed and pass away lmao #can't tell if I'm normal sore or fever sore tho so we've got an ice pack and a heating pad at the same time #something has to work lmao

[tardis--dreams]

Reached the doctor's office on the 1st attempt today. Impressed.

They don't do covid vaccinations (:

#no of course not #why would they #it's completely irrelevant #who needs it anyway #i love life #it's absolutely amazing they don't offer vaccinations against covid anymore #i couldn't be more pleased #i'm not mad at it #it is fine #so very fine #i will not despair because of it #got an appointment for a blood test on Friday though #so i achieved at least Something #i will have to drive there myself for the first time #because no trains #probably will have to drive my mother to work and then to the doctor's office and then bring the car back to my mother's workplace #and walk home from there #because it's only like 2.5 kilometers but my mother has a lot of stuff to carry to bring to work #(and the weather is probably gonna be awful) #and the doctor's office is over 6 kilometers away which is not a distance i will comfortably walk #i mean i could #but I'd be stressed and annoyed and probably drenched when i arrive because it's probably gonna rain #it's an ✨️opportunity✨️ to practice my driving skills ♡ #let's see it positively #void screams

[alatariel-galadriel]

3 Common Misconception: HIPAA Edition

(aka I have HIPAA tattooed under my eyelids and I want to make it everyone else’s problem)

This is pedantic, but the act protecting your health information is HIPAA, not HIPPA. One ‘p’, two ‘a’s. HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, not the oft-quoted (and non-existent) Health Information Privacy & Protection Act. Not a huge deal, since it protects your health information regardless, but it’s a pretty decent metric to mark if someone actually knows what they’re talking about.

HIPAA protects you from employees of healthcare organizations sharing your information without your consent.  HIPAA violations occur when someone who has access to your medical information *as part of their job* either a) purposely accesses information outside of their job requirements b) shares your health information without your consent or c) puts health information in a position where it can be improperly accessed by others, purposefully or not. You can shout your medical information to the hills. People who you've told your medical information to can shout it to the hills, so long as they didn’t get that information through their job. People can demand that you share your information--but your doctor can’t hand it over without your consent.

Exceptions to HIPAA exist. There's quite a few of them, actually, and I’ve made a detailed list below the cut; but to correct the biggest misconception: yes, there are situations where health care employees are required to share your information with the government. This typically falls under mandatory reporting (think child abuse, gunshot wounds, or highly infectious diseases), but your information can also be accessed via warrant or subpoena for criminal proceedings.

Here is the government’s webpage breaking down the HIPAA Privacy Rule if you want to know more! I love love love HIPAA and will gladly talk about it for as long as anyone will let me (hence the cut below).

Detailed breakdown of HIPAA exceptions under the cut:

TPO: This stands for Treatment, Payment and Operations, because if your health info was on complete lockdown, no healthcare entity could function. Employees can access/share your info when that info is necessary for them to...

Provide treatment (ie: your nurse can share your info with your doctor)

 Receive payment (ie: giving your info to your insurance company)

Maintain operations (ie: health data/medical records staff. This is me--as a health systems analyst, I can’t do my job without access to the data within the medical records system)

Public Interest: ie: when required by law/governmental function. This includes:

Mandatory reporting (discussed above. Healthcare professionals are required to report infectious diseases like measles or rabies, as well as incidents like gunshot wounds or domestic violence.)

Health oversight activities. These are the organizations who evaluate and investigate whether a facility meets safety/performance regulations and standards. Trust me, you want your info shared with these folks!! 

 Law Enforcement. I’m going to be really specific here, because there’s been a lot of (justifiable) concern post-Roe v Wade. Your info can be shared if it is is…

Subpoenaed, court ordered, or court-ordered warrant by a court, judge, or administrative tribunal

 Requested by law enforcement to id a suspect, fugitive, witness, or missing person

 Requested by law enforcement for info about a victim/suspected victim of crime

 To alert law enforcement of a person’s death if the organization believes a crime has occurred

If the healthcare organization believes the information is evidence of a crime that occurred on its premises.

In emergency situations, providers can share information about the nature of a crime, the location of crime/victims, and the perpetrator of the crime.

Decedents: Funeral directors, coroners, and medical examiners all need your info to do their jobs, Being deceased, you can’t give your authorization, so an healthcare org sharing your info with them is not a HIPAA violation

Organ/Eye/Tissue donation: pretty self-explanatory. Some of your information as a donor might be shared to ensure a healthy transplant.  

Research (limited data sets): This one tends to freak people out, but if you’re on one of these, anything that can identify you is removed (name, address, etc.). Instead, details of specific conditions/treatments are stored to provide data for researchers. For example, every state has, by law, a cancer registry--used to identify sudden spikes that might be attributable to environmental factors.

Serious threats to health/safety. If a serious, specific threat is made against a person or the public, this can be shared with law enforcement and the person who the threat is made against. There’s a lot of grey area here in what counts as a specific threat, and this can get complicated quickly, but if someone tells a medical professional that they are planning on harming you, you will be notified alongside law enforcement. Likewise for a bomb or other public threat.

Essential government functions. If you are in prison or other correctional facility, you are not protected by HIPAA. Some government benefit programs will require the disclosure of health information. (It also includes national security and military missions).

And last, but not least: worker’s compensation. Healthcare orgs have to share parts of your information for you to receive worker’s comp, as part of the verification process. Fantastic!

#I am here to make my rote memorization of HIPAA everybody else’s problem 😊 #it’s so fascinating because HIPAA is ubiquitous in the U.S and also just. So misunderstood. #which makes sense because it’s not something you learn unless you’re in the field but it drives me bananas to see a certain type of person #be so confidently Wrong about it. I am gripping you by the shoulders. Vaccine mandates are NOT hipaa violations. I promise. Cross my heart #Epidemiological surveillance is your friend. Please trust me on this. It is beautiful and wonderful and necessary i promise #my job and degree is health information management/informatics so this is my bread and butter #i love health information!! #i love hipaa!! #my roommate does not. mainly because i talk about it constantly #but that's on them for signing a lease with me! they lived with me while i was getting my RHIA cert. they knew what they were signing up fo

[kucherovv]

would literally kill someone for a cheesy gordita crunch and medium baja blast rn

#i have fever from my vaccines... joe biden... #so i cant drive...... well i could but i sont want to... #and i sont want to spend $40 on doordash so. ok well guess ill die

[artemis-pendragon]

Keep seeing people being like Oooooo all these sudden deaths in healthy adults must be because.... Y'know... 💉... As if COVID doesn't consistently cause severe and long-lasting heart and multi-system issues even in mild and asymptomatic cases. Besties it's happening in unvaxxed people too. "Purebloods" still get the Rona my friends

#drives me insane!!! like post-viral syndromes (in this case long covid) have been studied for a while #like we know what's happening. that and the fucking forever chemicals causing cancer #which also gets blames on vaccines. sigh. #covid #tw covid

[ricisidro]

Vaccination drive vs measles, rubella, polio starts today May 1 until the end of the month.

#DOH #Vaccines #VaccinationDrive

#measles #rubella #polio #VaccinesWork

#vaccines #vaccineswork #vaccination drive #measles #polio #rubella #DOH #Instagram

[arctic-hands]

I swear to god if I have shingles AGAIN I'm gonna McFucking Lose It

#'it' may very well mean my life #last time I had shingles I was immunocompromised too and it literally nearly killed me #like they told my mom had she waited like another hour to drive me to a hospital 2 hours away that would see me #after my hometown ER refused to see me for 'just chickenpox' #that I would have died #fuck fuck fuck shit #I got vaccinated for shingles before I started stelara why am I bumpy

[proosh]

I joke irl that childhood exposure to Elton John made me gay but I just realised that the same principle is probably responsible for Iron Maiden’s Live After Death blasting open my childhood third eye and making me autistic about history

#vaccines don’t cause autism but rime of the ancient mariner might #had this realisation driving home from work and laughed

[eggs-can-draw]

We need more walkable cities not just for the big reasons but also because I should be able to just get up at 2am and walk to get myself some marble soda

#eggs can speak #the fact that I have to GET IN THE DAMN CAR AND DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD to get my marble soda is FUCKING CRIMINAL #also every other reason we need more walkable cities #there was a raccoon in the road and it should not have to risk its life to get around #it should go home with me #we need a rabies vaccine for raccoons NOW

[anneisalwaysangry]

I feel like garbage but at least I'm in the lottery for Bananaball tickets

#ramblin' anne #may the odds be ever in my favor #the garbage feeling is normal vaccine side effects or school stress or both #I WILL take a Friday off work to drive to a Bananaball game so help me god

[exmeowstic]

what song have you heard the most at your workplace do you think

not a song per se but if i have to hear one of those ads about getting your rsv or shingles or pneumonia vaccines one more time im going to end up on the national news

#AND FLU SEASONS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!!!!!!! #actually. ric can you come get ur flu shot at our pharmacy pls. it will help me get a raise if i can drive our vaccination numbers up