A mobile phlebotomist travels outside of a clinic or hospital to the patient's location to procure blood samples. This may be for blood drives or to take blood samples of people who are not able to travel such as nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, hospice or the most common locations, is right at the patients home! Their responsibilities revolve around gathering information to verify the patient's identification, coordinating with nurses or facility officials, labeling and organizing samples according to a set of protocols, delivering samples to designated laboratories, and maintaining patient records. Furthermore, as a mobile phlebotomist, just like any in-office medical company, we set a higher responsibility. Standard Precautions are used for all patient care. They’re based on a risk assessment and make use of common sense practices and personal protective equipment use that protect healthcare providers from infection and prevent the spread of infection from patient to patient. As a mobile phlebotomist we take HIPAA very seriously. It sets boundaries on the use and release of health records. It establishes appropriate safeguards that health care providers and others must achieve to protect the privacy of health information.