In 1976, the California Supreme Court ruled in the case of Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California that a patient’s right to confidentiality “ends where the public peril begins.” It was decided that doctor-patient confidentiality could—and should—be broken if the doctor believes a patient will cause serious harm to another person. In his article entitled “A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality,” Kenneth Kipnis argues that doctor-patient confidentiality should always be kept, contrary to the findings of the Tarasoff case. He presents the fictionalized case of the infected spouse to clarify his argument. In this case, a husband learns from his doctor that he is HIV positive.…
When filing electronic or personal health records online, anything is possible in regards to security breaches. Sometimes they can be avoided. Other times hackers are able to crack codes in encrypted data. When this happens, the clinic or hospital is held responsible for patients’ confidential information such as social security numbers and credit cards becoming accessible by an unauthorized third party. In July 2010, the Attorney General’s office was informed of a security breach involving at least 800,000 patients at South Shore Hospital in Massachusetts.…
1) Describe some of the circumstances in which confidential health information can be disclosed without the patient's explicit consent Confidential health information can be disclosed under the following circumstances without the patient’s consent. Court orders and Subpoenas - when there is a court order made to have the health records available. The legal process to obtain health record information is through a subpoena. Statutory reports - Hospitals and medical personnel are required to report certain health information to public authorities.…
Describe the responsibility of the medical office specialist to protect all protected health information (PHI). When it comes to protecting patient information, it’s about getting employees to understand how to best protect it and what to do if there is a data breach. Training is essential and should include not only administrative employees, like medical office specialist, but also doctors, nurses, and other clinicians throughout the organization. All employees with access to patient information need to have the understanding of how to maintain security protocols when it comes to patient care. Many clinicians tend to look at PHI breaches as simply an IT issue.…
Conclusion: This review depicts, that both electronic health records and paper health records have vulnerabilities that have the potential to compromise patient data security. There are many who argue that the paper health records are more secure than the electronic health records. While electronic health records have their security vulnerabilities and have been more prevalent in the news, paper health records are not much more secure. Patient data security breaches in paper health records were not publicized as much as the electronic health records, because there is no way of knowing that they exist in order to report…
Nowadays, continuity of care has never been so easy. The creation of Electronic Health Records(EHR) has made it so easy for healthcare workers to access patient medical records for an efficient and accurate care. Every healthcare Institution under HIPAA is responsible for the protection of maintaining patient records, regardless of whether they use a vendor to process or store their patient information. It’s so important that privacy and security must cover all of healthcare company’s health information systems for HIPAA compliant of EHR. A newly revised HIPAA Security Rule requires providers to assess the security of their database, application, and system that contain patient data for maintaining a secure EHR system.…
It is our utmost effort of respect to follow the regulations that have been set by law, so the patient’s privacy is not breached. On the other hand, a few advantages and disadvantages of using information technology in an era of networking and security breaches would consist of the following. When medical providers lack security measures for their patients, it creates a trustworthiness issue among the physicians and staff members. Patients like to build relationships with their medical physicians, so the medical records of the patients should be kept private unless authorization is given.…
A civil monetary penalty could be given by the information commissioner of up to $500,000 if persons who have access to patient information deliberately or recklessly breach patient confidentiality, when using email to communicate between patients and a medical practice. Safeguards are required to protect patient confidentiality. Patients should be aware that unless their messages are encrypted…
Confidentiality can be described as a set of guidelines and procedures that place boundaries and restrictions on certain types of information. In medicine, the ability to keep a patient's health data private is one of the core responsibilities of a physician. In A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality, Kenneth Kipnis describes his view of patient privacy as absolute and something that must be upheld without waiver. In his essay, he disagrees with the views of the justice system and its stance in which it suggests confidentiality may be breached in order to ensure the welfare of a third party. He believes that legal and personal standards are not acceptable motivation to break the bond between patient/doctor trust.…
Competiveness and Performance Effectiveness for Health Care IT Systems Jimalion Perry Iisher Ford HAS 315 May 29th, 2017 Competiveness and Performance Effectiveness for Health Care IT Systems Today, the use of computers and information technology is fundamental in increasing the proficiency and performance of health care organizations around the world. This increases the speed and accuracy of collecting the patient’s medical history information. Also, these methods help in forming and storing the patient information in ways that can be tracked.…
The study also explains the fact that for most healthcare organizations the confidence level in its employees to actually notice a data breach is next to none. If they can’t detect the breach then they are not capable of notifying anyone in the event of one. A data breach can go undetected for quite some time before anyone is even aware of it. Another problem is there are so much time and money spent on policies and procedures and not enough money spent on enforcing them. It is important that healthcare personnel understand all of the laws regarding patient confidentiality.…
The clinic employees must follow our guidelines in order to kept patient privacy and safety all the time. Our team has to update patient records within 48 hours to ensure accuracy as it is critical information. If you find an error on the patients’ medical record the employee must correct the mistake by crossing out the mistake with a single red line mark.…
As an agency employee, student, or volunteer in any medical field, you love to talk about the nature of what you do, and how it is humanist. About talking of the humanist, you should to know the laws of this work and put the interests of the patient at the top. Also you are committed to protecting the privacy of patients, and you should never be posted their Information on a social networking site such as: twitter, and the patient may be the only person who has that right, and he will be responsible for what happens next. Protect patient privacy is one of the most kind of humanist, cause when you saving that privacy you will be trusted by him, he will allow you to diagnose him without fear and full of trust and he will be comfortable. Also…
Confidentiality is always important in a medical office. Everything you see, hear or read about Need’s to remain confidential and does not leave the office. While working in a medical office you will always need to make sure patients have their privacy. We must make sure we protect our patients. Due to the current HIPPA laws patients Medical information is considered confidential.…
Integrity: A professional accountant should be honest and straightforward in all of his business and professional relationships Objectivity: in order to override business and professional judgments, a professional accountant must not allow bias, conflict of interests and undue influence of others. Professional Competence and Due Care: while providing professional services, a professional accountant should act diligently and in accordance with application professional and accounting standards and should maintain professional knowledge and skills at the level that ensure that employers or clients are receiving competent professional services. Confidentiality: A professional accountant should respect the confidentiality of information required…