When is it OK to Break Confidentiality? Confidentiality is central to trust between doctors‚ medical team and patients. Patients have a right to expect that information about them will be held in confidence. The birth of the Hippocratic Oath in the fourth century started the responsibility of physicians to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of their patients. One of the provisions of the Oath lays the ethical foundation for the physician’s duty of confidentiality even beyond the circumstances
Premium Contract Management United States
performance and ethics for nurses and midwives’ (2008) states: "You must respect people’s right to confidentiality." "You must ensure people are informed about how and why information is shared by those who will be providing their care." "You must disclose information if you believe someone may be at risk of harm‚ in line with the law of the country in which you are practising." Confidentiality A duty of confidence arises when one person discloses information to another in circumstances where
Premium Health care Decision making Data Protection Act 1998
Android OS and Apple OS Mobile phones have become a part of people’s everyday life. There are more than six Billions mobile phone users on the planet. Every mobile phone has hardware and a specialized software called an operating system. Both Android and Apple have a operating system or OS. There are a lot mobile operating systems available. Android is a software stack-set of software subsystems needed to deliver a fully functional solution for mobile devices and desktop. The iOS is a mobile operating
Premium Smartphone Mobile operating system Mobile phone
7th Edition‚ Jan 12‚ 2005 1.5 Silberschatz‚ Galvin and Gagne ©2005 Four Components of a Computer System Operating System Concepts – 7th Edition‚ Jan 12‚ 2005 1.6 Silberschatz‚ Galvin and Gagne ©2005 Operating System Definition OS is a resource allocator Manages all resources Decides between conflicting requests for efficient
Premium Operating system
Authentication Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ABSTRACT Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) adopt the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) for their security. In any PKI system‚ the authentication of a received message is performed by checking if the certificate of the sender is included in the current CRL‚ and verifying the authenticity of the certificate and signature of the sender. In this paper‚ we propose an Expedite Message Authentication Protocol (EMAP)
Premium Cryptography Algorithm Public key infrastructure
United Kingdom’s climate change protocol will be reported and verified through a variety of procedures. Most dominantly‚ England is a proud member of the Kyoto protocol‚ which monitors progress of all the countries involved. The program evaluates all emissions of GHG from each country to find where monitoring of the gases is most necessary. Precise records of emission trading are recorded to ensure the target goal is within reach. To ensure the rules of the protocol are followed‚ the UN Climate
Premium Kyoto Protocol Emissions trading Global warming
1 Android OS: A robust‚ free‚ open-source operating system for mobile devices Paul Michael Kilgo Abstract Mobile devices have seen an extensive amount of development in recent years‚ but one question is still looming and nobody seems to have the answer: what is ’standard’ for the mobile platform? Many companies have already written their own in-house operating systems for the devices they manufacture such as Symbian or iPhone OS. However‚ with the existence of so many closed-source operating
Premium Android Operating system Mobile operating system
Definition OS is a resource allocator Manages all resources Decides between conflicting requests for efficient and fair resource use Operating System Definition (Cont) No universally accepted definition “Everything a vendor ships when you order an operating system” is good approximation But varies wildly “The one program running at all times on the computer” is the kernel. Everything else is either a system program (ships with the operating system) or an application program OS is a control
Premium Operating system Computer
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PURPOSE Open Web OS‚ formerly HP Web OS‚ Palm Web OS or simply Web OS‚ is a mobile operating system based on a Linux kernel‚ initially developed by Palm‚ which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard .The official name is web OS‚ uncapitalised. But Web OS is also us.Palm launched Web OS in January 2009. Various versions of Web OS have been featured on several devices‚ including Pre‚ Pixy‚ and Veer phones and the HP Touchpad tablet.After the failure of the HP Touchpad
Premium Palm OS
Christy Figueroa 109 cr 44150 Powderly‚Tx 75473 Student id# 21732115 Confidentiality of Health Information‚ HIT 109 Research project number (40903400) In the medical field correct medical files are very important. Sometimes errors are just a typographical error. Any information that will have an effect on a diagnosis ‚treatment‚ or ability to be contacted will affect you and your health today and in the future‚ should be corrected. If you correct something it should be time stamped and dated
Premium Database Physician Access control