DUTY OF CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY TO PATIENTS IN NIGERIA BY NAME OLASOJI ADESOLA PHOTIZO REG NO LP13/14/H/1916 COURSE PUL 609 MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE DR. A.O YUSUFF ABSTRACT The paper aims to examine properly the concept of the doctor-patient relationship‚ duties of a doctor to a patient‚ what Confidentiality and Privacy mean in the context of a doctor-patient relationship and the attendant liability and exceptions. The papers objective is to show the concept of the duty of Confidentiality and Privacy
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moral standpoint (PHG Foundation‚ n.d.). The fact that the family is considering prenatal testing is appropriate due to the suspicions of complications or abnormalities that if identified early can result in positive outcomes. The four principles of Bioethics are autonomy‚ the right of individuals to make their own decisions; nonmaleficence‚ one should avoid causing harm; beneficence‚ positive steps should taken to help others; and justice‚ the benefits and risks should be fairly distributed (PHG Foundation
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demonstrates that the counselor failed to comply with standards established to maintain high confidentiality with regard to electronic files. The standards was not implemented. There was a serious breach of confidentiality that was not immediately acknowledged. First and foremost‚ the files were easy to break into
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health information. As technology advances with the coming future‚ protection as become increasing difficult‚ covering all the basis and guidelines brought forth by HIPAA laws. A major concern of the federal government is an intended or unintended breach of HIPAA regulations. Along with HIPAA‚ came the creation of the Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule according to Mir‚ (2011)‚ “restricts the use and disclosure of health information except by the individual‚ persons granted access by the individual
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1‚ Distinguish data from information and describe the characteristics used to evaluate the value of data? Data versus Information 1 ‚Data 2‚ information 3‚knowledge. 1‚ Data raw facts‚ such as an employee ’s name and number of hours worked in a week‚ inventory part numbers‚ or sales orders .several types of data can be used to represent these facts Data Represented by alphanumeric data numbers‚ letters‚ and other characters image data graphic images or pictures audio
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Patient Portal known as “Kaiser Permanente Online” (KP Online)(Wager‚ 2009). KP Online provides members access to request appointments and prescription refills‚ obtain health information‚ and receive medical advice from staff. In August 2000‚ a breach occurred when an Operations technician applied patches to servers in support of a new KP Online pharmacy refill application. Subsequently‚ the outgoing e-mail function of KP Online failed and created a dead letter file of outbound messages with replies
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Ethical Framework As a professional health care worker‚ the implication confidentiality breach regarding ethical dilemmas are significant to nurse and patient. The information disclosed can cause problems on a personal and professional level. Breach of confidentiality occurs when the heath care work discloses the patient ’s medical or personal information without the patient ’s informed written or verbal consent. Confidentiality is needed between the nurse and the patient to maintain a good open and
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Bank’s duty of confidentiality is an implied term of contract between customers and their banks and building societies that these firms will keep their customers’ information confidential. This confidentiality is not just confined to account transactions – it extends to all the information that the bank has about the customer. But from time to time‚ banks end up releasing information that they should have kept secret about their customers to a third party which sometimes ends up in major consequences
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Altruism - Concern for the welfare of others. Professional ethics - Document usually created by the profession that provides guidance for the ethical behavior of its members. Bioethics - Deals with the ethical implications of biological research and applications. Distributive justice - Just distribution in society‚ structured by various moral‚ legal‚ and cultural rules and principles. Formal justice - Ethical concern of formal justice is that the criteria are applied equally to all similar cases
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ensuring laboratory test and other pertinent procedures are done promptly while maintaining comfort to the patient. Utility. As a patient of this nurse‚ knowing his refusal of blood transfusion‚ he would call the assistance of the social worker or bioethics committee and explore other alternative treatments
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