This is a Confidentiality awareness and training

1. By Sherin Hamo
MHA 690 Health Care Capstone
Jared Rutledge
July 9, 2015

2. • Every individual has the right to feel to ensure that their personal,
private, and medical information is in safe hands.
• Confidentiality is the protection of personal information, which it
requires keeping information about others private.
• Examples of maintaining confidentiality by making sure that
individual files are locked and secured.
• Cannot share any patient information without their permission.

3. • Demographics
• Medical history or records
• Personal care issues
• Incoming or outgoing personal correspondence

4. • HIPAA is means the Portability and Accountability Act, this law was
signed in1996 is one effort to protect patient information and medical
information.
• A portion of HIPAA was designed to protect patient privacy and
confidentiality in such a secure environments and through electronic
transactions.
• “The regulations protect medical records and other individually
identifiable health information, whether on paper or in electronic or
oral communications” (Buchbinder & Shanks, 2011, p. 345).

5. • The purpose of the HIPAA Privacy Rule is to prevent the inappropriate
use and disclosure of individual health information
• It’s very important to build trust and to protect health information
about a patient and HIPAA violations.
• Eliminate fines and lawsuits

6. • Every employee must comply with HIPAA
• The actions could result in warnings, punishments, or termination
• The physical safeguards must be used to protect the privacy and
security.
• For example, if private medical records are breached, healthcare
service providers could suffer damage to their brand, reputation, and
loss of trust from their patients.

7. References
• Buchbinder, S. B., & Shanks, N. (2011). Introduction to Health Care
Management, 2nd Edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• Department of Education and Training. (2009). Confidentiality.
Retrieved from
https://sielearning.tafensw.edu.au/MCS/CHCAOD402A/chcaod402a_
csw/knowledge/confidentiality/confidentiality.htm