Confidentiality Slideshare

1. CONFIDENTIALITY
MHA690 WEEK 1 DISCUSSION 2

2. Health care organizations must hire the most
qualified health care professionals that are proven
to be responsible and willing to work with ethical
behavior at all times.

3. Health care organization should have strategies in
place that teach healthcare managers how to
communicate more effectively with their employees.
Trainings should take place on an annual basis to
about confidentiality policies for patients and as
well as employees.

4. Health Information systems are the catalyst of
quality control in the health care industry and can
have a major impact on a health organization when
it comes to unauthorized access to the health
records of a patient.

5. One regulatory requirement is that all healthcare
facilities abide by the safeguards put in place to
protect the confidentiality of the patient. The
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) does that.

6. According to Johnson (2006), maintaining
confidentiality is important, as it demonstrates a
respect for persons as everyone has the right to
have information about their personal lives or
medical conditions kept confidential.

7. According to Wager, Lee & Glaser (2013) there are
many sources for the legal and ethical requirement
that health care professionals maintain the
confidentiality of patient information and protect
patient privacy.

8. Wager, Lee & Glaser (2013) go on to say that
penalties are applied using a tiered schedule that
ranges from $100 for a single violation where the
individual did not know he was not in compliance
to $1,500,000 for multiple violations due to willful
neglect.

10. References
Johnson, G. (2006). Confidentiality and standards
of care. RCM Midwives, 9(12), 486-487 2p.
Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P.
(2013). Health care information systems: A
practical approach for health care
management (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass.