HIPAA-Release of Info

[csanders5071]

We have policy in place that if patient wants family members to be able to discuss more than one-word condition they sign for Passcode on admission.  For those occassions when an elderly parent is admitted and the child who is POA and their sibling may not be speaking - what else can be done in order to discuss patient's condition without getting in the middle.  The nurses did ask for social security # as well as date of birth.  Is this sufficent.

Thanks.