Ethical Issues in Healthcare and Health Facilities

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Introduction
 Ethical issues in healthcare and health facilities are crucial.
 Everyday patience, doctors , nurses, families and other health
professionals must face legal and ethical decisions to make.
 The difficult dilemmas and challenges they face range from concerns
of medical treatments, hospital management, practices and other
fundamental subjects that are in the healthcare industry (Mazar, &
Patel, 2015).

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 When managed effectively and efficiently, the information helps the
medical care givers to make informed decisions about patient care.
 However, it should be noted that managing health information
properly poses a lot of ethical challenges.

Privacy concerns
 There is a lot of privacy concerns as medical records and other
relevant information in a healthcare facility may contain personal
information such as health conditions, sexuality history, and
psychiatric diagnosis and substance abuse issues.
 These issues could be embarrassing if they are released to
unauthorized users.
 The decisions on storage procedures and access control should be
confidential and have sensitivity considerations.
 There should be ethical need to preserve the confidentiality and
privacy of a patient.