Administrative Ethics Paper

Administrative Ethics Paper

Dietrich Burton

HCS/335

September 17, 2012

Ann Nevers

Administrative Ethics Paper

For some time now there has been a deal of attention that is directed to issues of patient privacy. The time and technology has moved rapidly in advancement in information on retrieving it and the healthcare delivery system with nontraditional relations with other business entities. Physicians try their best to maintain strong ethical standards and principles that pertain to the patients’ privacy information. Due to these issues of patient privacy in 1966 they passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act because of patients fear that their personal information.

The patient privacy impacts all business or organization that have to collect personally identifiable information, such as name, address, telephone numbers, social security numbers, birth dates, race, employment history, etc. It is critical that these organizations are safeguarding all personal information and because of company unintentionally transmitting confidential information. There are published articles on the, “Health Exchanges Sharing of Patient Data Privacy Concerns”, (Robertson, 2012)”, and so many patients are opting out and terrified to participate in this new technology. There is such controversy over this privacy for example there was 65 year old chronically ill retiree who was rushed to the hospital and had shortness of breath and the patient thought she was having a heart attack. She was previously seen at a hospital before that was using the exchange patient system and the doctor that treated for the emergency visit, quickly knew what to look for her and knew about her previous history because of the exchange server. With this technology there are some that are saying that this helps physicians give a more accurate and quickly can tell you the patient diagnosis. There are some states that have accepted the offer of the exchange server and there are other...