Question

You are the director of health information services in a major medical center that maintains both a psychiatric and substance abuse units in addition to general medical and surgical units. Your facility, under the direction of the CIO, plans to join a computer network with 15 hospitals throughout the state, which will allow online access to records, regardless of which facility they were generated. None of the other 15 facilities offers psychiatric or substance abuse treatment, and you have been asked to provide HIM analysis as the subject matter expert.
Identify access and confidentiality issues that may be present with such a network in the light of the statutory, regulatory, and accrediting requirements governing patients treated in these units.
What specific organizational recommendation(s) would you make to the CIO to ensure she has considered specialized records in her support of the network for all departments, including the HIM department?
Discuss psychotherapy notes as defined by HIPAA and how they are treated differently.

Answer 1

The simplest case in which medical confidentiality can be breached is when there is patient consent. However, this does not allow professionals to publish information or medical records in absentia on social media — as this is also prohibited by the Code of Medical Ethics in its section on the subject.

What specific organizational recommendations would you make to the CIO to ensure he considers specialist records in your network support for all departments, including the HIM department?

The recommendations are to keep these patients confidential, so that their information is only available to doctors, and not open to the public.

Discuss psychotherapy notes as defined by HIPAA and how they are treated differently.

In general, patients or their legal representatives should be able to view and obtain copies of their medical records and request corrections if errors or mistakes are identified. For purposes of the US Privacy Act, a patient's "authorized personal representative" is a legal guardian able to make health care decisions, a representative in possession of a power of attorney for dealing with health-related matters, or a family member or friend authorized to act as a representative for decisions under US state law. Patients also have the right to allow third parties access to all or part of their medical records upon signed written authorization.

With this information, we can conclude that Ethical medical treatment always includes the need to keep patients' medical information confidential. However, the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act codified this responsibility for health workers.

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