Confidentiality Essay

In today’s society with the blogs, the gossip sites and the other forms of social media, confidentiality is a thing of the past. However, for, physicians and other health professionals, they are held to a higher standard to maintain a level of ethics and confidentiality for their patients. Confidentiality is a major duty for a health professional, but is there ever a time to where it is okay to tell what a patient says in confident? What if the patient is a minor, or a senior citizen or someone who is mentally challenged? What if a patient is being abused or wants to commit suicide? Does it matter if it is a nurse, or a dentist, or a psychologist or is all medical professional held to the same moral standard? What roles does a consent form or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act plays in the medical world in being confidentiality? I would like to explore Confidentiality and the moral effects it has on the health profession.

Confidentiality: Is it ever okay to tell?
Confidentiality plays a huge part in the health profession. Patients are confiding sensitive and

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 or known as HIPPA. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act went into effect on August 21, 1996. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a set of national standards privacy rules for the protecting sensitive patient information to provide and promote quality health care and to protect the public health and well-being. The privacy rule applies to health care providers, health care clearing houses, health plans, Medicare, Medicaid and all other entities that are connected to the health care system. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act covers the protection of patient information in many forms, whether it is electronic, oral or