2. Workplace confidentiality can be defined as
keeping the employee, customer and client
information private
Confidentiality is a fundamental part of
professional practice that protects human
rights
3. The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections
for personal health information held by covered entities
and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that
information
The Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the
disclosure of personal health information needed for
patient care and other important purposes
The Security Rule specifies a series of
administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for
covered entities to use to assure the
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic
protected health information
4. More than 120 workers at a UCLA hospital
viewed celebrities medical records and other
personal information without permission
Supervisors’ passwords were compromised by
employees in order to obtain the information
This was a breach of confidentiality between
patient-employee privileges and rights
5. Patient information should not be discussed among
employees on the clock nor off of the clock
Staff should always log off, turn off, or lock their
computers
Sensitive information should have security controls
that are only accessible to management
Passwords should regularly be changed to ensure
security
6. The human resource professionals should take
necessary steps to prevent the misuse of
information that is personal
Once the policies are devised, the next thing to
do is to communicate the same to all the
employees, supervisors and managers
7. Training them about the confidentiality issues by
giving them printouts of the policy or holding
meetings and seminars in the office which teach
the importance of confidentiality to the
employees, should be done on a regular basis
Employees are informed of what is considered as
a breach of confidentiality and what the
consequences of their actions will lead to in forms
of disciplinary measures
8. What is HIPAA. Implementation of HIPAA and the
privacy rule of the IRB. Retrieved April 5, 2012, from
http://www.research.uci.edu
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