Confidentiality and the patient's right to privacy 10 Articles

by Southern Housewife

What Right To Privacy in Healthcare? What does it matter how much precaution a physician's office takes to protect patient confidentiality? Any patient who has health insurance has essentially thrown the right to priv...read more

by A Morris

I write this article with particular reference to patient confidentiality issues in the United Kingdom. Your medical records are about as personal as personal details get. Every medical professional who has access to your ...read more

by Renee Dawson

There is probably no one in the entire United States that has not signed a HIPPA form regarding the right to privacy. It is a Federal Law that patients can expect that their names and medical diagnosis won't be talked abo...read more

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by Anne Harrell

Confidentiality and the patient's right to privacy When it comes to patient's rights where has the patient's right to confidentiality gone when it comes to our doctor's office whether it is the doctor that tells or the ...read more

by Melody Hearndon

All hospitals operate with a Health Information Management Department. In this department depending on the size of the facility there is a person employed known as the Director, who oversees the entire department from ...read more

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by Ben Frayser

HIPAA. Health Information Portability and Accountability Act. What's the big deal? Why is this so important? Doesn't everyone realize the importance of maintaining confidentiality in a hospital setting? Well. Firs...read more

by A. Kyles

We had our third baby on Oct. 29, 2007. She was six weeks early and for some reason she had to be put into the NICU until she was thirty-five weeks gestation. She was 5lbs. 11oz. and had no breathing problems whatsoever. S...read more

by Karen Cheong

I read the first author's article about how his medical information was released without his consent and sympathise with him. Patients' confidentiality is of utmost importance. If not for anything else, the patient's healt...read more

by nickname

Patient's right to privacy, ah yes, a convenient way to make 'people' accountable for the shortcomings of the technical age. Take for example all the files available on hospital system computers. All your lab tests, your...read more

by David Zoppi

CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE PATIENT'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY All professionals and their staff have a duty to ensure that personal information given in confidence remains confidential. Recently, I discussed a matter of a pri...read more