Report on Patient Rights: Privacy and Confidentiality in Healthcare

This report provides a focused analysis of patient rights, privacy, and confidentiality within the healthcare context. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining patient data security and anonymity, highlighting how these practices contribute to conflict reduction and ethical healthcare provision. The review underscores that every individual possesses the right to privacy and confidentiality concerning their personal health information, including medical history, diagnostic procedures, and treatment details. It also discusses the role of encryption in securing patient data and the necessity of respecting patient privacy during medical and surgical treatments. Furthermore, the report acknowledges the implementation of laws and legislation, such as the Confidentiality Act 1998, to uphold these rights. It concludes by affirming that privacy and confidentiality are central to healthcare, with healthcare providers bearing the responsibility of safeguarding patient data. Desklib offers this report and other resources for students.

PATIENT RIGHT PRIVACY AND
CONFIDENTIALITY

Table of Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
CONTEXT OF DOCUMENT.........................................................................................................1
CRITICAL REVIEW.......................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

TITLE
“Patient right, privacy and confidentiality”
CONTEXT OF DOCUMENT
The document is well focused on the patient right, privacy and confidentiality which is
mandatory and must kept in such a place such as databased with limited access, the patient right
are used to provide in some of the cases which include incurable disease or situation, medical
history, personal detail and many more. As a medical staff, the healthcare setting used to provide
the proper aspect to kept the patient identity anonyms which help to maintain the privacy and
confidentiality that is productive to reduce conflict. The document usually focuses on the context
such as right, privacy and confidentiality of patient which is driven by medical employee in order
to take this as a responsibility within the healthcare provision (Abdekhoda and et. al., 2019).
CRITICAL REVIEW
In the context to the healthcare provision, the right to privacy and confidentiality is the
major right which is related with the every individual. The individual has the right to the
confidentiality towards their personal information which may include the information which is
related with the his or her state of the heath and show the proper potential diagnostic or the
therapeutic procedure which is well connected in order to protect the his or her privacy as during
the stage of treatment and diagnostic process or procedure (Mosconi, 2019). Therefore, the
confidentiality of the patient also gathers with the specialist visits and the medical or the surgical
treatment in the term of general ways. With the context of data and information which is related
with the individual state of the mind which is related with the medical surgical treatment in
which the patient used to subject and must focus on the considered state of health and show the
approach which is protected in the adequate way (Ghayvat and et. al., 2021).
The personal information is always required privacy which is considered as the term of
encryption which help to secure the data or information which is associated with the patient. The
personal privacy always respected that is related with the patient even in the course of medical or
surgical treatment which may include diagnostic exam, specialist, medication and many more
(Hosseini-Ghavam-Abad and et. al., 2019). It helps to take place with the aspect of appropriate
environment and show the presence which is only related with the absolute need to be there and
it is usually access the data with the approval of patient or complication which require personal
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information. In order to maintain the privacy and confidentiality, the law and legislation are used
to implemented such as Confidentiality Act 1998 (Hartigan, Cussen, Meaney, and O’Donoghue,
2018).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is well analysed that that the privacy and confidentiality is the
central part which is related with the healthcare setting. The healthcare setting also show the
aspect which is related with the responsibility which is associated with the keeping of patient
data and information safe and secure.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Abdekhoda, M., Dehnad, A. and Khezri, H., 2019. The effect of confidentiality and privacy
concerns on adoption of personal health record from patient’s perspective. Health and
Technology, 9(4), pp.463-469.
Ghayvat, H., Pandya, S.N., Bhattacharya, P., Zuhair, M., Rashid, M., Hakak, S. and Dev, K.,
2021. CP-BDHCA: Blockchain-based Confidentiality-Privacy preserving Big Data
scheme for healthcare clouds and applications. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health
Informatics.
Hartigan, L., Cussen, L., Meaney, S. and O’Donoghue, K., 2018. Patients’ perception of privacy
and confidentiality in the emergency department of a busy obstetric unit. BMC health
services research, 18(1), pp.1-6.
Hosseini-Ghavam-Abad, L., Asghari, F., Bandehagh, A., Najafipour, S. and Bigdeli, S., 2019.
Patient privacy: Awareness and attitudes of Iran University of Medical Sciences medical
students. Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 33, p.12.
Mosconi, P., Radrezza, S., Lettieri, E. and Santoro, E., 2019. Use of health apps and wearable
devices: survey among Italian associations for patient advocacy. JMIR mHealth and
uHealth, 7(1), p.e10242.
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