Electronic Violation Of Hippocratic Oath Patients

The Hippocratic Oath is important because it keeps all of the patients health information secure. As a result of the Hippocratic Oath patients are able to trust doctors to keep their reason for seeking help confidential and will do no harm. A violation of HIPAA can be verbal or electronic. An example of a electronic violation of the Hippocratic oath is when you are on your computer looking at a patients files. In the middle of looking through the files you get called because you are needed in another room and you do not close out the files. Anyone in your office or that walks by your office can potentially see those patient files you were looking tough. An example of a verbal violation of HIPAA is when you are on the phone talking about the
patients information and someone sitting next to you over hears your conversation.
A SOAP note is a written documentation the physician takes when a patient comes in for a visit. In a SOAP notes the physician seeing the patient write down how the patient is feeling and the symptoms they are experiencing. Then they examine the patient and take notes on what they find. Last they say what that they believe is wrong with he patient and then provide a plan after their visit. Whether they need to see another doctor or schedule a surgery. An example of improper medical documentation would be if a physician were to write down the wrong abbreviation for a test the patient needs. Or when they are examining the patient they miss diagnosed the patent and they receive the wrong treatment. If either of these actions were to happy the patient may be given medication that can make they issue worse or they could also have to pay for test they don’t actually need.