1. Tiffany Jefferson
MHA 690 Capstone
Dr. Hwang-Ji Lu
February 2, 2012
TRAINING ON CONFIDENTIALITY

2. What you will get out of
this training
 What is HIPPA
 How to protect a patients privacy and
security of their personal records
 What to do in the case of a persons privacy
being violated
 Each individual is responsible for their own
actions
 What can happen in the event that someone
is caught violating a persons rights

3. What You will get out of
this training
 What is considered to be personal and private
information
 Who is allowed to look at the information
 Why you should not peek in a persons private
information

4. What is confidentiality?
 Confidentiality in the medical world is the
ethical principle or legal right that a provider
or other health professional will hold secret
all information relating to a patient, unless
the patient gives consent permitting
disclosure.

5. What is HIPPA
 HIPPA stands for Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act.
 HIPPA is a US law designed to provide privacy
standards to protect patients' medical
records and other health information
provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals
and other health care providers.
 Developed by the Department of Health and
Human Services

6. HIPPA
 HIPAA seeks to establish standardized
mechanisms for electronic data interchange,
security, and confidentiality of all healthcare-
related data.
 The Act mandates standardized formats for all
patient health, administrative, and financial
data; unique identifiers for each healthcare
entity, including individuals, employers, health
plans and health care providers
 also security mechanisms to ensure
confidentiality and data integrity for all the
information that identifies an individual

7. Protecting Patients
 You should never discuss a patients care with
any person other then the patient
 Providers are to keep the information
between them and the patient unless the
patient is notified of needing it to be
discussed further
 No one is to enter a patients records with out
them knowing

8. Protecting patients
 If a patients information is being tampered
with or discussed without patients knowing
of it then this should be reported to the
supervisor
 If the incident is not reported then their will
be consequences such as:
 Warnings
 Suspension
 Or will be Fired

9. Personal information
 What is considered to be personal is:
 A patients medical condition
 Their address or phone number
 Their social security number
 Any medications that they are taking

10. Who is allowed to access
this information
 The only people that are allowed to access a
patients personal information is:
 The provider
 The patient
 Or any person that the patient allows to access
with written permission

11. The role of IT
 The IT department will be able to tell who is
an unauthorized user in a patients chart
 Also how long you are in a patients chart
 Also the frequency of visiting that patients
information

12.  DO NOT and I REPEAT DO NOT enter in
patients file without their permission
 No one is allowed to just surf through
anyone's information.
 If you see someone doing so PLEASE report it
because if you don’t then you will also be
blamed because you knew the person was
doing something wrong

13.  Many people have lost their jobs do to
violating another person privacy to see what
they are all about, but we have to ask
ourselves if our job is more important or this
persons medical records.

14. To avoid severe consequences then each
individual is to be responsible for their own
duties and to not violate any ones rights.
People need to feel protected and know that
their health information is theirs and only
theirs and if they feel they want to share the
information then that is up to them. Lets all
work as a team and not do anything to
jeopardize anyone, which includes us as an
organization as well as the patients that
come to us for care and a sense of stability.

15. References
 www.hhs.gov
 www.hippa.com
 medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com