FAQs
For Supervisees:
First, confirm that your supervisor has an active Ripley account. Navigate to the Account Access section under My Profile to send a connection request. Make sure to use the correct email address associated with your supervisor's account. Once you submit the request, if the email you provided matches an existing account, the connection will be established automatically.
For Supervisors:
Only supervisees can initiate the connection request for safety and privacy protection. Ensure your supervisee has an active Ripley account and that they use the correct email address associated with your account when submitting the request. Once they send the request, if the email matches an existing account, the connection will be established automatically.
When Ripley was designed, the software engineers and planners decided that Ripley would not contain any of the 18 identifiers that trigger HIPAA compliance.
In other words, by not having electronic protected health information, or ePHI as it is called it would make the tracker much more simple.
If you review the 18 client patient identifiers below, Ripely Fieldwork Tracker does not for any of those. All these identifiers below are with respect to the Patient being treated.
- Patient Name
- Address (all geographic subdivisions smaller than state, including street address, city county, and zip code)
- Dates (except years) related to an individual (such as birthdate, admission date, discharge date, date of death, and exact age if over 89)
- Telephone numbers
- Fax number
- Email address
- Social Security Number
- Medical record number
- Health plan beneficiary number
- Account number
- Certificate or license number
- Vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plate numbers
- Device identifiers and serial numbers
- Web URL
- Internet Protocol (IP) Address
- Finger or voice print
- Photographic images
- Any other characteristic that could uniquely identify the individual
It is important that users do not add HIPAA-protected ePHI information to the tracker. This approach would apply to all devices, texts, emails, conversations, in which it would be important not to supply this information as a note would not require personal health information.