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This document discusses the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality. It notes that confidentiality is a legal and ethical duty, and failing to protect patient information could result in losing one's job or legal penalties. The document defines confidentiality as a physician's duty to keep a patient's medical information private. It provides tips for maintaining confidentiality, such as only accessing patient data as needed for work, logging out of computers, and disposing of documents securely. The document states that any employee found breaching confidentiality will be immediately terminated.
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- 1. Confidentiality: Why it’s Important Briana N Daugherty MHA 690 November 15, 2012
- 2. How does confidentiality affect you? • The confidentiality of patient information affects whether you maintain you position • How you do you job is affected by protecting patient confidentiality • “Maintaining patient confidentiality is a legal duty as well as an ethical duty” ( www.ama.assn.org).
- 3. What you should consider • Using patient information for unauthorized purposes can cause you to lose your job, incur fines, or serve possible jail time • Future employers may find it hard to hire you if there are confidentiality issues • There can be harm done to a patient or their family for your carelessness
- 4. What is confidentiality? • “Confidentiality means that a physician or medical care provider may not disclose any medical information revealed by a patient or discovered by a physician in connection with the treatment of a patient” (www.ama.assn.org) • This means that it is our duty to keep and maintain a patient’s right to confidentiality and privacy.
- 5. How can we maintain confidentiality? • As a group, we can ensure that we are only using patient information for legitimate purposes • We can take extra care when disposing of information that could have patient information on it • Log out when not using a computer so others do not have access to patient information • Do not share your log in codes or passwords with others as they have their own access levels
- 6. How can we maintain confidentiality? • Ensure that conversations regarding patients are at volumes that do not allow others in the area to hear • Do not access patient information unless there is a need to complete your job duties
- 7. Consequences of breach of confidentiality • Since this is such a serious topic, there will be NO toleration of breaching patient confidentiality. • An employee who is found to have breached a patient’s confidentiality will immediately be terminated.