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- 1. Maintaining Confidentiality in Health care A comprehensive analysis of how to avoid breaches in patient information. Heather Briana Master MHA 690: Health Care Capstone Dr. Sherry Grover April 1, 2013
- 2. What is Confidentiality Confidentiality: is a general term that is used when speaking of preserving the privacy of a patients information. Confidentiality is applied to all conversations between health care providers and their patients. Furthermore, patients except privacy when they are being treated at a health care facility. A provider is expected to maintain a patients privacy no matter that patients social status.
- 3. What is considered private information? What information is considered to be confidential (private) patient information? • The patient’s name and identifying information • The patient’s age, sex, race, religion, and martial status • Any health information which includes: diagnostic results, health condition, procedures, basically any information that is obtained during the patient examination.
- 4. Importance of maintaining patient privacy. • Health care providers have a duty to maintain the privacy of their patients health information. • It is a health care administrators duty to ensure that breaches in patient confidentiality don’t take place within their organization. • All health care providers, administrators and staff have a duty to keep the organizations patients health information private.
- 5. Maintaining patient confidentiality in a health care setting • Confirm the patient’s identity • NEVER discuss the patient’s case without the patients consent (this includes your family and friends during off- duty hours) • NEVER leave hard copies of forms or records where unauthorized persons can have access to them. • Only use secure routes to send patient information (i.e. official mail). • Conduct patient interview in a private area • NEVER discuss a patients case or use the patient’s name in a public area where it might be over heard. • ALWAYS protect computer passwords or keys; never allow unauthorized use.
- 6. Steps to encouraging your staff to keep it confidential. • Implement strategic training strategies that will encourage ALL staff to maintain patient and data security. • Offer incentives to those who excel in maintaining the integrity of others (i.e. reward a nurse who always double checks to make sure that the nurses station doesn’t have confidential information in plain sight or not secured). • Conduct random audits of all areas, such as break rooms, nursing stations, and offices. • Conduct annual and semi-annual patient confidentiality training. • If all else fails use disciplinary action for those who don’t comply.
- 7. References Confidentiality in Tuberculosis.(2010). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/tb/education/ssmodules/module7/ss7reading4.ht m Fox News. (2008).Report Over 120 UCLA hospital staff saw celebrity health records. Retrieved from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398784,00.html Wolper, L.F. (2011). Health care administration: Managing organized delivery systems (5th ed.). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.
Editor's Notes
- These rules apply to all patients no matter their social standing. In other words is Bruce Wills comes to your hospital don’t go putting that information on Facebook, Twitter, or Google Plus. You must always protect a patients rights to privacy when receiving medical care.
- Training staff is essential to maintain the security of health information of all patients how are temporary resistances of the health care facility.