Unit 4 Assignment Introduction In a medical practice, ethical and legal issues can arise when any project is implemented. Projects that are to be implemented require the legal team to review prior to being implemented. Ethical and Legal issues that could arise once the Arcadia HealthCare Solutions Integration Project goes live into a production environment include privacy, encryption, as well as trust. The issues can be both ethical and legal. Regardless of where you live ethical and legal issues can be perceived as dangerous and can cause both the CareMount Medical group and Arcadia HealthCare Solutions additional issues but can also help with patient perception of the group. The perception of the group can be changed with the implementation of the Software as well, with the new software patient care will be improved and the Care Coordination Team will be able to care for the whole patient not just an illness. Ethical Issues The ethical issues that can plague the Arcadia HealthCare Solutions Integration Project include privacy, encryption and trust. Privacy is of the utmost importance within a medical practice, ethically a patient’s privacy is very important as a medical record contains information regarding a patient’s health. According to …show more content…
With privacy being of the utmost importance within a medical practice, HIPAA compliance can be a significant legal issue when implementing the AHSI Project into production. HIPAA compliance is a very important legal issue that should be reviewed by the legal team on any project. Encryption is also important as a legal issue, if the software is not encrypted and patient information is not protected, it can be a HIPAA violation as privacy is. Trust as a legal issue involves HIPAA compliance as well as trust in the legal system that CareMount Medical
1. There will be the use of a secure medical records system used in order to protect the privacy of the patient. Through the use of the WebPT, medical records can only be accessed by healthcare providers directly involved in that case. WebPT is a password protected system (HA-10). 2.
You are correct Vaschar, the HIPAA privacy rule does play a big part in the role of keeping patient information secure. In the instance when a patients information is given to a fellow medical provider for continuity of care to establish a consult appointment is not an issue, but should that patients medical records need to be released between the medical provider and the other provider of care a medical records release authorization should be signed by either the patient or the patients representative. In the case where a medical provider wishes to distribute a product for another company it can do so without any HIPAA violation just as long as it does not pass on any patient demographic or patient care information to the company. If
Since HIPAA become mandatory on most of the health care organization, patient information is more secure compared to previous. Health care organization are investing huge amount of fund for safety measures to protect the patient information and i think this is the main concern in today's advanced health care
How HIPAA and Health Information Technology Impacts Health Finance This country is a place of innovation and growth. Every week, there seems to be a new invention created to improve our way of life. This innovation has not escaped the health care industry.
We are all people, we all get sick; we all go through some stuff that we might not want anybody to know, from my point of view as a person, as a patient that would be awful for me if somebody else know what I am passing through. So I will use that as a medical assistant, and my priority will be my patient safety, confidentiality and trust. Why would you do something that you would not want for yourself? Simple, follow the HIPAA privacy
Lastly authors Sharma and Aggarwal state that “There are four major ethical priorities for EHRS: Privacy and confidentiality, security breaches, system implementation, and data inaccuracies.” (Jamshed, Ozair, Sharma, & Aggarwal, 2015). In the future paper records will become a thing of the past thus, better training and accountability from providers is an essential part to protecting patients EHR and confidentiality. Electronic
Reporting analysis to those interested and providing market and vendor analysis will also be addressed. Information Security and Privacy in Healthcare Environments (IS555) This course deals with physical and technical secure storage of information, processing, and retrieving the information, and the distinct regulations to the healthcare
Patient Rights. Enactment of HIPAA enables patients in many ways by providing them a set of rights which include a right to be notified about the privacy practices of the covered entity they are dealing with, a right over control and access of their Personal Health Information(PHI), and to take legal action against an entity on encountering any HIPAA violation without facing threats of retaliation. Security Safeguards. The Security Rule of HIPAA provides a highly detailed series of requirements in terms of administrative, technical, procedural and physical guidelines, for securing the electronic Personal Health Information (ePHI). State Law.
PMI Code of Ethics – Theranos case Theranos violated the responsibility in the PMI code of ethics. The PMI code of ethics requires all professionals to take actions based on giving the best interests of our society and public safety. Theranos violated this principle by not taking responsibility for all the patients they had during the testing process. The machine they developed for the blood test is not providing valid information to all the patients, this misleading info could be very crucial to these patients. Because of the information Theranos misguided, it is possible they may indirectly homicide many patients.
This edit may be resource intensive. The most concerning issue is the ability of the patient to restrict access to the medical record. These restrictions may interfere with safe medical care. The heath care provider may have their decision making compromised by the non-disclosure. If the patient requires a surrogate decision maker, limiting medical information may preclude the ability to make an informed decision.
Health information exchange or HIE allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care providers and patients to access vital medical information. It also allows them to share medical information securely and electronically. HIE improves the speed, quality, safety, and the cost of patient care. For many years patient's files were stored using paper methods, transferring them by mail, fax or transferred it by hand to every appointment. Changing to electronic file improves the completeness of patient's medical records.
The declaration is mainly addressed to the physicians, although WMA inspires the researchers of human information to embrace these principles. According to the Declaration of Helsinki, medical research on humans must primarily focus on the well-being of the research subjects than on the research interests. Medical research has to comply with certain ethical standards, which endorses respect to all the human subjects. It is advised in the declaration for the researchers to take sufficient precautions in protecting the privacy, confidentiality of patient’s personal data, in reducing the impact of the study on the physical, social and mental integrity of the subjects.
24. Every precaution must be taken to protect the privacy of research subjects and the confidentiality of their personal information. 26. In medical research involving human subjects capable of giving informed consent, each potential subject must be adequately informed of the aims, methods, sources of funding, any possible conflicts of
The practice of health care includes many scenarios that have to do with making adequate decisions when it comes to a patient’s life, and the way they are treated. Having an ethical code in all health care organizations is very important, because it helps health care workers with reaching a suited and ethical decision when it comes to the patient. In health care, patient will always be put first, and their autonomy will always be respected. Nevertheless, when there is a situation where a patient might be in harm, or might be making their condition worse because of the decisions they made. Health care workers will always be there to
Since the majority of healthcare providers fall under the heading of being a covered entity, and therefore must adhere to HIPAA regulations regarding Protected Health Information and individually identifiable health information. This means they are required to have measures in place to provide security for that information in their possession, whether it is stored in paper charts or in their facility’s computers. Every healthcare facility must have a person that is the designated Privacy Compliance Officer. Even if it is only two people employed, one of them will need to be the Privacy Compliance Office. It is that important of a position.