Health Care Confidentiality
Health Care Confidentiality
Healthcare confidentiality
Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
- Define privacy
- Define confidentiality
- Describe the patient’s right to privacy
- Describe other rights patients have
- Define Key Terms
- Describe the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment
- HI135-3: Summarize the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and state/federal regulations which govern the release of protected health information.
Instructions
Answer the following question thoroughly (at least 300 words) and back up your answer using credible sources. Use appropriate APA guidelines.
- Distinguish between a patient’s right to physical privacy and the right to expect the health-care provider to maintain confidentiality of patient information.
- Text book link
- http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781133614234
Answer preview
Distinguish between a patient’s right to physical privacy and the right to expect the health-care provider to maintain confidentiality of patient information
Privacy is the right of persons to maintain information regarding themselves from being unveiled. This means that patients have the power over others accessing information regarding themselves. It is the mandate of the patients to dictate who, where and when their information should be unveiled. On the other hand, confidentiality is how those who posses the information about patients, that is the health care providers, treat it when it has been disclosed to others. The disclosure of such information is dependent upon the relationship of trust and thus it is usually given with the expectation that it will not be divulged (Roach & American Health Information Management Association, 2012)…………………
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