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Mha690week,discussion 2

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Lawanda Bishop-Jones
Lawanda Bishop-Jones

This document discusses the importance of protecting patient privacy and maintaining confidentiality of medical records. It states that hospitals should have stronger security systems for patient information and train all staff regularly on privacy laws and policies. Any violations of patient confidentiality should result in firing employees or other consequences. Ensuring confidentiality is important to avoid legal and financial risks to the medical centers from breaches of privacy.

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MHA:690 Discussion 2 Hospitals should ensure a better safety computer system when patient’s medical records are concerned. It shouldn’t matter if you are a celebrity or not, violating any patient’s medical or personal information should be considered a violation of the patient’s privacy rights and/or a crime. Hospitals and medical centers should take better precautions to ensure that patient’s 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 patient’s 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. 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 customer’s 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 is helpful when training every employee. Reference: Goldman, J. (2008). Protecting privacy to improve health care.

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  • 1. MHA:690 Discussion 2 Hospitals should ensure a better safety computer system when patient’s medical records are concerned. It shouldn’t matter if you are a celebrity or not, violating any patient’s medical or personal information should be considered a violation of the patient’s privacy rights and/or a crime. Hospitals and medical centers should take better precautions to ensure that patient’s 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 patient’s 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. 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 customer’s 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 is helpful when training every employee. Reference: Goldman, J. (2008). Protecting privacy to improve health care.