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As health conditions is one of the most kept personal information, it is important that care providers and patients alike know when to compartmentalize information and to whom they should keep it and who to reveal the medical condition. In [[http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/rad/confidentiality/ Confidentiality: An Expectation in Health Care ]], any information dissemination should have full consent of the patient, no more no less. [[http://www.mightystudents.com/catalog/health_and_medicine Health essays]] can also emphasize that if there is breach in confidentiality, then it will have ill effects on a person's health.
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Impact of breach in confidentiality
As health conditions is one of the most kept personal information, it is important that care providers and patients alike know when to compartmentalize information and to whom they should keep it and who to reveal the medical condition. In [[http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/rad/confidentiality/ Confidentiality: An Expectation in Health Care ]], any information dissemination should have full consent of the patient, no more no less. [[http://www.mightystudents.com/catalog/health_and_medicine Health essays]] can also emphasize that if there is breach in confidentiality, then it will have ill effects on a person's health.
As health conditions is one of the most kept personal information, it is important that care providers and patients alike know when to compartmentalize information and to whom they should keep it and who to reveal the medical condition. In [[http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/rad/confidentiality/ Confidentiality: An Expectation in Health Care ]], any information dissemination should have full consent of the patient, no more no less. [[http://www.mightystudents.com/catalog/health_and_medicine Health essays]] can also emphasize that if there is breach in confidentiality, then it will have ill effects on a person's health.
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The only medically responsible conclusion you can draw is that it is dangerous to apply any confidentiality of any kind to current medical health-care records. There is no way these systems can hide information in a way that makes the risk of serious error low enough to be acceptable. Sadly, the law mandates these confidentiality mechanisms, clearly prioritizing the patient's right to confidentiality above medical safety. Personally, I don't know if this is right or wrong, but the lawmaker is placed in the unenviable position of having to make such a choice by the unnecessarily poor design of current EHR systems.
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The only medically responsible conclusion you can draw is that it is dangerous to apply any confidentiality of any kind to current medical health-care records. There is no way these systems can hide information in a way that makes the risk of serious error low enough to be acceptable. Sadly, the law mandates these confidentiality mechanisms, clearly prioritizing the patient's right to confidentiality above medical safety. Personally, I don't know if this is right or wrong, but the lawgiver is placed in the unenviable position of having to make such a choice by the unnecessarily poor design of current EHR systems.
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- If applied to warnings, such as chronic infections, it puts medical staff at risk by not alerting them to the necessity of taking extra precautions while working with the patient
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Electronic health-care records must implement and respect confidentiality settings, such that certain care givers will not be able to view information that the patient may not want them to. There are many aspects to this problem, such as if the doctor should be able to break these confidentiality barriers in emergency situations, if the existence of hidden data should be indicated, and so on, but the only problem we will discuss in this section is to what entity the confidentiality is applied.
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The only medically responsible conclusion you can draw is that it is dangerous to apply any confidentiality of any kind to current medical health-care records. There is no way these systems can hide information in a way that makes the risk of serious error low enough to be acceptable. Sadly, the law mandates these confidentiality mechanisms, clearly prioritizing the patient's right to confidentiality above medical safety. Personally, I don't know if this is right or wrong, but the lawgiver is placed in the unenviable situation of having to make such a choice by the unnecessarily poor design of current EHR systems.
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The only medically responsible conclusion you can draw is that it is dangerous to apply any confidentiality of any kind to current medical health-care records. There is no way these systems can hide information in a way that makes the risk of serious error low enough to be acceptable. Sadly, the law mandates these confidentiality mechanisms, clearly prioritizing the patient's right to confidentiality above medical safety. The lawgiver is placed in the unenviable situation of having to make such a choice by the poor design of current EHR systems.
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The only medically responsible conclusion you can draw is that it is dangerous to apply any confidentiality of any kind to current medical health-care records. There is no way these systems can hide information in a way that makes the risk of serious error low enough to be acceptable. Sadly, the law mandates these confidentiality mechanisms, clearly prioritizing the patient's right to confidentiality above medical safety. The lawgiver is placed in the unenviable situation of having to make such a choice by the poor design of the EHR.
