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¶ … GBMC Healthcare Hospital. The main issue relates to privacy and confidentiality issues considered essential components of fostering trust between healthcare consumers and providers. The issue arose the GBMC hospital did not strictly follow the rules of privacy and confidentiality. Because of its lack of complete control on the privacy issues, many pieces of private information of patients were stolen and compromised.
Although GBMC hospital has been committed for 75 years to ensuring patient healthcare information is used to fulfill appropriate needs as provided by consent or law, but with the advent of the electronic health record and the transfer of an individual's health information through electronic media, including the Internet, the need for privacy and confidentiality protection takes on new meanings and challenges for the GBMC.
As medical science and technology continue to mature, and new data is being created that, when accessed, could be used to discriminate against an individual. How this data should be used and protected is another example of the problems facing the GBMC as it attempts to protect an individual's privacy and confidentiality (Courtney, 1998).
The issue was resolved between GBMC and Sadwik Law firm that provides legal service to clients on the issue of HIPAA. Some of these issue that Sadwik Law firm takes are "bloodless" surgery; confidentiality of psychiatric clinical...
The policy clearly states that GBMC members believe privacy and confidentiality are essential components of fostering trust between healthcare consumers and providers. Trust is essential if the health information collected is to serve as a complete and accurate foundation not only for patient health information but also for patient care, research, payment, and healthcare policy-making. The collection and use of health information will be permitted only for legitimate purposes, and only as provided by law, and will be uniform across all jurisdictions and entities and for all individuals.
3 -- Since the implementation of the policy, GBMC has taken strict steps in maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of the patients. It has also devised several rules intended to: (1) standardize data formats and use identifiers in order to improve the interchange of health information; (2) safeguard the privacy of health information; (3) enhance security for the systems used to maintain or store patients' health information; and (4) allow electronic signatures to…
References
Courtney S. Campbell, The Crumbling Foundations of Medical Ethics, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 143-152
Roberto, M. And Flynn, E.P., Issues in Medical Ethics, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 188-189
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