Ethical theories and principles that are related to confidentiality are- confidentiality is one of the most basic principles in health care practice and it is the most long-standing ethical dictum in health care codes of ethics. It is the practice of keeping harmful‚ shameful‚ or embarrassing patient information within proper bounds. The right to privacy gives legal standing to this ethical principle.). a reliable test for who among team members should be given certain types of information is need
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Patient Confidentiality 1 Article background: “Some 13 per cent of US medical schools have reported that their students have leaked confidential information about patients via blogs or social networking websites. The students didn ’t name names‚ but did provide enough personal information‚ such as the medical condition involved and hospital‚ for patients or their families to recognize who is being described…The information was provided by medical school administrators as part
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A National Security Breach Citi mortgage‚ a subsidiary of Citi Bank has issued a national PR release. Citi Mortgage of Fenton‚ Missouri‚ has publicly notified the public as of May 20‚ 2006 several hundred mortgage applications filed by previous Citi Mortgage customers have been lost by The United Parcel Service package company of Earth City‚ Missouri. Citi mortgage member’s social security numbers‚ salary information‚ bank account identification numbers and the home address of clients and their
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0 Client Confidentiality Strictly Legal promote client confidentiality by acting in accordance with our privacy statement and policies and procedures‚ which support the Trust Account Supervisor’s compliance with chapters 8 and 11 of the Rules of Conduct and Client Care of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act and the Privacy Act 1993. 6.1 Strictly Legal‚ and its staff‚ understands they will come in contact with confidential information as part of the trust accounting process. Strictly Legal are committed
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What are the defenses to a breach of contract? If someone is accused of breach of contract‚ there are a number of defenses available to argue that a contract should not be enforced. If any of the basic contract elements are missing‚ or if the contract was made with someone of diminished capacity or for illegal purposes‚ a contract can be unenforceable. Some other examples of potential defenses to enforcement of a contract are mutual or unilateral mistake‚ duress or undue influence‚ unconscionability
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The subject I intend to reflect upon is confidentiality within a professional healthcare setting. Confidentiality formed a part of our professional issues lectures and it piqued my interest due to how differently it is interpreted within healthcare as opposed to education‚ which is my background. In an educational setting I was taught repeatedly that I could never ensure confidentiality between myself and a child. Comparing that to what I have now learnt in healthcare‚ this seemed to me almost the
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Effects of a Breach of Contract There are various types of contract with in the world of law such as civil law which deals with relations between individual citizens where as private law focuses on the relations between ordinary people on a day to day basis‚ both types of law include the law of contract. A contract is an agreement that is legally enforceable and therefore can be settled within a court of law‚ however how can we distinguish between a contract and any other form of non-legally enforced
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entitled‚ often held to include the right to life and liberty‚ freedom of thought and expression‚ and equality before the law. I would like to talk to you about privacy and confidentiality. Privacy: the quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others. (http://www.answers.com/topic ) Confidentiality: Containing information whose unauthorized disclosure could be injurious to either
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Nowadays‚ security breaches are prevalent in our environment‚ both physical and logical. Different types of unauthorized access are conducted by different groups of individuals for different purposes. One good example of breach is the TJX data theft that happened sometime in mid-2005 and on subsequent dates from mid-May 2006 to mid-January 2007. The TJX data theft is considered as the largest case of intrusion of data to occur to date. According to the article‚ the data stolen by hackers were
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HITECH ACT is the Breach Notification Rule. A HIPPA rule that requires HIPAA covered entities (CE) and their business associates (BA) to provide notification following a breach of unsecured protected health information (PHI) (HHSwebsite). CE and BA must notify U.S department of Health and Human Services (HHS)‚ some situations the media‚ and all individuals whose PHI has been breached (hhswebsite). Plus‚ all notifications must be made no later than 60 days after the discovery of the breach (bok). So‚ what
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