Healthcare Confidentiality

To begin the understanding of confidentiality, the author first provided readers with a formal concept analysis on confidentiality. He explained how confidentiality did not truly become a concept of interested until 1961, when the general nursing guides made a small mention related to the concept in regards to privileged

Confidentiality means keeping information given by or about an individual in the course of a professional relationship secure and safe from others. There are eight principals of good practice and anyone processing personal information must comply with them.

Confidentiality is about protection of others personal details. Whatever information you have about a service user must be between the user and the provider. The following are regarded as personal information that must be kept confidential. Name, sex, medical history and record, current contact, assessment or report, details of family and guardian etc.

Privacy and confidentiality are huge concepts to keep in mind in any medical field, and most for the time, “HIPAA” comes to mind when health information privacy is being discussed (Span 1). A piece made it clear, “Confidentiality in health care refers to the obligation of professionals who have access to patient records or communication to hold that information in confidence… confidentiality is recognized by law as

* Confidentiality – the steps that are taken when people’s information is not kept confidential and on a need to know basis

Confidentiality is of utmost importance regarding all areas of care. Confidentiality for the residents includes their information, their finances and care

The elements of the principles of confidentiality can be broken down into four separate categories: (1) Information provided by the patient is kept confidential unless consent from the patient has otherwise been given—unless it has direct legal implications or endangers the general public. (2) Informed Consent: is given freely, because the correct information has been supplied and the patient has sufficient information on the impacts involved. Information is otherwise given out on a need to know basis. (3) Duty of Care: Information is given out in order to protect the safety and health of others and the patient. Legal and general public health fall under this category. (4) Documenting Decisions: Consultations and actions that lead to

Confidentiality is considered a core value or principal in the medical practice. Confidentiality is a right that all people have within the medical field. This is the requirement of health care providers to keep a person’s information exclusive unless the patient or the person consents in the form of a release to share that information with other people that practice. Usually the consent is given when a doctor wants to consult with a different doctor for example. In this case it would be for the betterment of the person.

Confidentiality means not sharing information about people without their knowledge and agreement, and ensuring that written and electronic information cannot be accessed or read by people who have no reason to see it. Confidentiality is important because: Clients may not trust a career who does not keep information confidential.

In the medical practice, keeping confidential is strictly requested for physicians, as it favors positive communication between physicians and the patients they take care, leading to a good, long-term physician-patient

A topic for future research could be the improvement of health confidentiality safety. There has been several discussions about the proper protocol in case of breach of confidentiality, specially if this breach is caused by outside sources, such a hacker that invades and highjacks an EHR system. But can be done when the breach comes from within the organization? That has been incidents where Health Information professionals purposely, sold confidential information, to benefit themselves. Is there any course of actions that can be taken to prevent that such sensitive information falls into the hands of the wrong person? Is there anything that can be done to prevent the information to be transferred to another medium, or even be taken out of

The rules of law are tools of all kinds constituted and used by men. If they are useful to medical secrecy, it is because they are justified by values that need to be protected, first and foremost is the trust that the patient feels towards the doctor and all the medical personal. The medical world agrees to recognize the fundamental role of professional secrecy in the quality of the caregiving relationship, the founding text of Western medicine, the Hippocrates oath, has given us since Greek antiquity a definition which Keeps its actuality.Indeed, the questions are numerous: in what context, can anodyne data be considered as secret or confidential? Can we fully respect the anonymity of the patients and is it desirable if it is to the

Healthcare providers are normally expected to keep patient information confidential and obtain (informed) consent from patients before treating them. When the patient is a minor, however, questions arise about whether the provider has the same moral obligations of confidentiality and respect for patient choice (autonomy). Is it morally acceptable for minor patients to keep health information private from their parents? Do they have the right to make their own healthcare decisions?

The popular belief among our society has always been “Parents know what's best”. While their kids are young, parents know how to make their medical decisions for them. Parents know what's best for their children, they know how to keep them safe and healthy. However, their children soon turn into teenagers who should be trusted to make their own choices regarding their health care. They’re no longer the children they once were; they can comprehend the extension of every decision they make. Services and treatments should not be restricted to them because of their age or need for parental consent. Teenagers should be given confidential health care and should be trusted to make the choices that regard themselves. They should be allowed the privacy from everyone, including their parents make those choices.

The first principle is that with very few exceptions, health care information about a consumer should be disclosed for health purposes only. The information should be easy to use for those purposes, and very difficult to use otherwise. The second principle is that technical security safeguards be maintained for computerized data. Including audit trails that identify who accessed the data and the prosecution against anyone who used the records for illegal or improper purposes. The third principle is consumer access. The patient should have ability to access his or her records and know others that also have access to them. Patients should be aware of the laws, regulations, and policies that protect their information. The fourth policy is defined as accountability, which is of relation to security and consumer control. Fines and imprisonment are required to those who breach security of personal health information. The final policy is public responsibility. Legislation must be balanced between personal, private interests and national priorities of public health, research, and law enforcement. The excessive flow of information, without patient authorization, is essential to the immediate discovery and investigation in public health crisis. AHIMA's acknowledgement of these five principles are abroad outline of a sensible public policy that balances personal privacy