Confidentiality Basics
The primary purpose of confidentiality is to allow individuals to feel safe doing this.
What is sharing personal information?
A breach occurs when information is shared without these two things.
What are consent or a court order?
A provider can breach confidentiality if someone shares plans to harm this.
What is another person?
The person served can release information if they are one of these two types of individuals.
What is a competent adult or an emancipated minor?
Organizations use these agreements with system vendors to ensure confidentiality.
What are contracts?
The organization’s duty to protect information is both these two types of obligations.
What are legal and ethical?
Breaches can occur via phone, fax, email, or this written form.
What is a letter?
Harm to public health, such as the spread of this type of disease, can warrant a breach.
What are communicable or infectious diseases?
For a minor, this person generally has authority to release information.
What is a parent or legal guardian?
A major security risk comes from releasing information without this.
What is signed consent?
Full disclosure helps providers properly diagnose and establish these with clients.
What are treatment protocols?
One of the most common reasons for an accidental breach.
What is sharing information electronically?
Reporting gunshot wounds is an example of an exception required by this.
What is the law?
After someone has passed away, this person can release their information.
What is the administrator or executor of their estate?
Confidentiality training should occur during this phase of employment.
What is orientation?
Sharing information across integrated systems improves efficiency but challenges this ethical duty.
What is maintaining confidentiality?
In rare cases, confidentiality can be breached if maintaining it does more of this than harm.
What is causing harm?
A common exception related to financial reimbursement.
What is third-party billing?
This kind of consent is assumed when providers involved in care access records.
What is implied consent?
Ongoing training on confidentiality ensures compliance with these types of guidelines.
What are federal, state, and local?
A key document signed by clients that often includes confidentiality agreements.
What is an informed consent or privacy statement?
The obligation to breach confidentiality exists when reporting suspected cases of this.
What is child abuse or elder abuse?
This legal standard determines what public health cases must be reported.
What are state or municipal guidelines?
The right to access personal records varies depending on these.
What are state laws?
A systematic approach to training reduces the risk of this.
What is a breach of confidentiality?