Minor’s Right to Confidentiality of Health Information Davenport University Healthcare Regulation HSAD 302 October 05‚ 2012 Table of Contents A MINOR’S RIGHT TO CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH INFORMATION 3 MINOR’S RIGHTS VERSUS PARENTAL RIGHTS 3 PROMISCUOUS ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR 4 LEGAL ENTANGLEMENTS 5 PUBLIC POLICY 6 CONCLUSION 6 REFERENCES 8 . A Minor’s Right to Confidentiality of Health Information In August of 1996 congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
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The concept of Ethics has been a very important and controversial topic throughout the health care profession. Ethics is a way of practice that involves decision making and many healthcare professions and various administrators work together to achieve excellent patient care. According to the article "Fundamental ethical principles in health care" the ethical code has evolved during many years but it gets its origin from the Hippocratic tradition. Similar codes are evolved recently by nurses‚ paramedical
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Modern health information systems are very complex; several models address the architecture of modern health information exchanges. The centralized model and the decentralized model are just two of the several models of modern health information systems. The centralized modern health information exchange model stores patient information in one centralized location. The centralized model allows single database inquiries into the system. A centralized health information exchange model is very quick
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(SPC) OF HEALTH INFORMATION IN THE PHILIPPINES DEFINITION OF TERMS Due to the special nature of health information‚ the legal and technical aspects of the concepts of security‚ privacy‚ and confidentiality (SPC) have a particular meaning in the context of healthcare. Privacy is the right of an individual to limit access to others to some aspect of their person. A more specific type of privacy is informational privacy (which is the notion of privacy we are most familiar with). Information privacy
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Redefining the Roles of Health Information Management Professionals in Health Information Technology by Xiaoming Zeng‚ MD‚ PhD; Rebecca Reynolds‚ EdD‚ RHIA; and Marcia Sharp‚ MBA‚ RHIA Health information technology (HIT) is being sought as one of the key elements to streamline the process of providing healthcare to improve quality and harness cost. It is hoped that HIT will lead to a more cost-efficient healthcare system than the current one. Surprisingly‚ there is no agreed definition
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Uniformity and Disclosure Choice among accounting methods Uniformity ◦ Relevant circumstances ◦ Nature of finite and rigid uniformity and flexibility ◦ Extent that standards are using finite uniformity‚ rigid uniformity‚ or flexibility Disclosure Items providing important information to users Minimizing agency costs Signaling information that management wants to send to outside parties Attempting to “influence” outside parties Comparability
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documentation and allows for the patient’s medical record being able to be accessed by all and any clinicians or physicians to access the patient record at any given time. This helps with being able to read nurses notes‚ progress notes‚ and reports not only from radiology but lab reports that are pertinent to allow for better patient care and more effective treatments. As healthcare costs are rising‚ quality of
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for drug use without their consent? Hospitals‚ during their normal course of treatment should test pregnant women for drugs of any type‚ whether legal or not. Of course‚ the patient should be informed of such testing‚ but consent should not be required. Findings of illegal drugs should be used to educate and treat the mother for an addiction rather than informing law enforcement of such an activity. Hospitals are in the business of treating people’s ailments and promoting health. Reporting of
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Informed consent is a basic requirement for clinical studies. It gives people a choice to participate in the study while understanding what the research entails. Generally‚ the consent form should contain a statement of the research study in question‚ the purposes of the research and the overall experiences along with the benefits that subjects may encounter. It should also contain a disclosure of any proper alternate plans of action or courses of treatment. Information about a study must be presented
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FREE CONSENT Meaning * Agreement or act of assenting to an offer * No consent no contract Free Consent – Consent is said to free when it is not caused by * Coercion * Undue influence * Fraud * Misrepresentation * Mistake Flaw in consent * Coercion When person compelled to enter into contract by use of force by other party Coercion is the committing or threatening to commit any act forbidden by Indian Penal Code 1860 or unlawful detaining
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