HIPPA violations and patient privacy

1. Privacy and
Patient
Confidentiality
Joy M. Whitlow
Health Care Capstone
MHA 690

2.  Patient confidentiality and their personal
information are protected under very specific
laws. At all times patient information should
be kept private, no inappropriate access of
patient records, or recording patient
information that protects the hospital and the
care givers as well (McGowan, 2012)

3. Training Objectives
 Inform employees about the patient data
protection act of 1998
 Discuss why information should remain
confidentiality
 Discuss HIPPA act of 1996 and how it
protects not only the patient but care givers as
well (Confidentiality and electronic record,
2015)

4. Ethics & Liabilities
 McGowan (2012) provides numerous
examples of nurses and physicians who have
been:
 -Fired
 -Received jail time
 -And lost their medical license due to
confidentiality violations.

5. Avoiding HIPPA Violations
 Avoid putting any patient information on to
social media.
 Avoid discussing patient information with
other employees.
 Follow all standards when documenting and
retrieving patient records (Bazan,2015).

6. References
 BAZAN, J. (2015). HIPAA in the age of social
media. Optometry Times, 7(2), 16-18.
 McGowan, C. (2012). Patients'
Confidentiality. Critical Care Nurse, 32(5), 61-65
5p. doi:10.4037/ccn20121
 Patient information: confidentiality and the
electronic record. (2015). British Journal of
Nursing, 24(17), 894-895 2p.
doi:10.12968/bjon.2015.24.17.894