Confidentiality in the healthcare organizations.

1. Jody Dean
1/15/2015

2.  Confidentiality is a patient’s right to privacy
with respect to individually identifiable
health information, including genetic
information, should be established
statutorily.
 Individuals should retain the right to decide
to whom, and under what circumstances,
their individually identifiable health
information will be disclosed.
 Confidentiality protections should extend not
only to health records, but also to all other
individually identifiable health information.

3.  Respect for an individual’s right to privacy.
 Respect for human relationships to which
personal information is shared.
 Appreciation of the importance of
confidentiality to both the individuals and
society.
 Expectations that those who pledge to
safeguard confidential information will do so.

4.  Confidentiality problems can be addressed by
the interviewing the staff.
 Checking the browsing history in the
organizations computer systems.
 Bring in Law enforcement to find out.
These items can address the problem with
confidentiality within the healthcare
organizations.

5.  Termination for breach of contract
 Lawsuit damages
 Criminal charges
 Reputation of the employee- If the employee
has a bad reputation for violating the
confidentiality protocols within the
workplace, most employers will not hire
someone with that kind of reputation.

6.  Civil penalties
 Criminal penalties
The organization can be penalized for the
violation of patient confidentiality. The
organization can also be sanctioned and put
on some sort of probation period.

7.  Advances in technology has increased the
violation of confidentiality for the patients.
It is so important that the health care
organizations use and take the proper
precautions in making sure that these
violations do not continue to happen. With
educating the employees on the HIPAA laws
and the OSHA laws, the patients should feel a
little better regarding their privacy within
the health care facility.