Confidentiality

1. Reading the Report: Over 120 UCLA Hospital Staff Saw Celebrity Health Records article, what training
could you as a manager put into place to avoid this situation? Present your training idea using any Web
2.0 tools. How can this training on confidentiality be effective for the employees?
Everyone in our facility is responsible for maintaining the privacy of patient information. It is a
part of delivering excellent healthcare. This highly-recommended course discusses the issues of patient
confidentiality. It illustrates ways to identify potential risks to patient privacy, basic principles for
protecting that privacy and what to do for a patient whose privacy is at risk. Patient confidentiality is
important to the overall wellbeing of our patients.
Protecting patients’ privacy Is a vital responsibility for anyone who works in health care. A new
HIPAA enforcement environment for the company .With increased monetary penalties and an active
program of regulatory auditing for HIPAA compliance. It is vital for the company to ensure that everyone
rights are being protected at all times. With electronic medical record comes greater access to patient
records, raising the odds of privacy breaches.
To improve on the staff confidentiality I would ensure that all staff must take will depend on
their job duties and the date they took their last online HIPAA training course. Managers will be
expected to make sure that every member of their team takes the appropriate training and successfully
completes it before the end of the calendar year. I would also have the employees all sign contract
ensure that they will abide by all confidentiality and that that understand failure to do so can result in
termination. Also it will be known that they will be random HIPPA inspections done by department
managers. I will also insure that only employees that need access to patient information will have the
ability to access it. They will also be repercussion if any gives the authorization to any other employee to
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