Report: Patient Rights, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Healthcare

This report focuses on the critical aspects of patient rights, privacy, and confidentiality within healthcare environments. It emphasizes the mandatory nature of maintaining patient data securely, often in databases with restricted access. The report highlights patient rights in various contexts, including incurable diseases, medical histories, and personal details. As a medical staff, healthcare settings should provide proper aspects to keep patient identities anonyms, which helps to maintain privacy and confidentiality. The critical review underscores the fundamental right to privacy and confidentiality for every individual in healthcare, protecting personal information related to health status, diagnostic procedures, and treatment. The report stresses the importance of data encryption to secure patient information and ensures that personal privacy is respected throughout medical treatments, including diagnostic exams and medication. The conclusion reinforces the central role of privacy and confidentiality and the associated responsibilities of healthcare settings in keeping patient data safe and secure, supported by references to relevant research.

“Patient right, privacy and
confidentiality”

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Context of document
 Critical review
 Conclusion
 Reference

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.

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.
 It 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).

CONTINUE
 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).

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.

REFERENCES
 Abdekhoda, M., Dehnad, A. and Khezri, H., 2019. The effect of confidentiality
and privacy concerns on adoption of personal health record from patient’s
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 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.

REFERENCES
 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.