Privacy And Confidentiality In The Medical Field

Introduction

Privacy and confidentiality are the two important factors of security issues when the discussion is about safety of information. Information can be part of any field, the threat to it is common. In this essay, I would like to take medical field as an information agency to explain the impact of privacy and confidentiality. The information of the patients plays a very important role in the medical field. The records or personal data of the patients have the confidential information which needs to be protected secure. According to Buckovich, S. A., Rippen, H. E., & Rozen, M. J. (1999), “As health care moves from paper to electronic data collection, providing easier access and dissemination of health information, the development of

Two major concerns of getting identified in large-scale sets

Privacy advocates raise two usual concern types relating to the use of large scale sets of health data.

• The risk of individuals getting identified from the information related to themselves or by combining others available information.

• The concern about re-identifying individuals from data sets that do not themselves contain identifying information has occasioned much technical controversy. (Francis, et al., 2014).

These concerns will be the impact that could cause risk to the Confidentiality and Privacy. The details once shared is the risk a patient can get that his information may be used internally in a different for many unforeseen conditions. This usage can lead a person to be identified for risk analysis in terms of security reasons.

Ensuring Medical confidentiality in Human rights

Instead we can reduce this kind of situations by supporting some principles. According to Buckovich, S. A, et al., 1999, Some principles are the human right perspectives that can be followed for the medical systems are:

• The right of Individuals to have privacy and confidentiality of their health information.

• No detail of the patient is disclosed or identified without prior patient informed consent

• The medical systems that has access to individual health information will follow the security, privacy policies and stick to them constantly.

• People have exception for right to access in a timely manner for their health information.

• Employers have a right to collect and maintain health information about employees allowable or otherwise deemed necessary to comply with state and federal statutes.

• An audit trail shall exist for medical records and be available to patients on