Confidentiality
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Hospitals should improve security of patient medical records and ensure strict confidentiality. Any disclosure of a patient's private information without consent should be considered a violation of their privacy rights and possibly a crime. All staff should receive annual training on HIPAA regulations and patient confidentiality policies. Employees who violate these policies should face firing or restrictions on working in healthcare. Providing thorough confidentiality training can help prevent breaches of patient information and reduce legal and financial risks for medical centers.
Confidentiality
- 1. Confidentiality MHA:690 Health Care Capstone Week 1, Discussion 2 Lawanda Bishop 8/27/2013
- 2. Confidentiality Hospitals should ensure a better safety computer system when patients medical records are concerned. It shouldnt matter if you are a celebrity or not, violating any patients medical or personal information should be considered a violation of the patients privacy rights and/or a crime. Hospitals and medical centers should take better precautions to ensure that patients medical records are kept confidential. There are laws put into place to better help control a patients confidentiality, but there always seems to be confidentiality rules broken when it comes to patients medical records or personal information. Each staff member should be trained annually/semi-annually on the HIPAA rules and regulations and patients confidentiality. The training should allow employees to share examples of how they might feel if their confidentiality was violated or what steps the medical center should take if this should ever happen. Any staff member that violates this policy should be fired and maybe even reframed from working in the medical field.
- 3. Confidentiality I believe that a patient should have the right to sue the medical center as well as the employee who violated the confidentiality law. (Goldman, 2008) Providing this confidentiality training to each employee can help eliminate or reduce the breach of clients information, the loss of a customers business, and the financial loss or criminal case that a client may bring against company as well as the individual employee who violated the privacy rights. Employees should also be trained on knowing how to protect passwords, shredding material that is no longer needed by the facility, and reviewing the privacy and policy rights and asking questions about things that a staff is not sure of helpful when training every employee.
Editor's Notes
- #4: Reference:油Goldman, J. (2008). Protecting privacy to improve health care.油