Exam 5: Confidentiality and the Management of Health Care Information

Write a defense for the principle of confidentiality within health care from a utilitarian point of view.

Match each item to the statement or question listed below -If confidentiality is the professional duty, this is the legal right.

Which of the following invasion of privacy issues usually deals with the unpermitted use of a person's name or likeness for another's benefit or advantage??

List five groups not involved in direct patient care that have a legitimate interest in the medical record.​

Write a defense for the principle of confidentiality from a virtue ethics point of view.​

The two basic principles found to be in conflict in the Tarasoff case were confidentiality and ____________________.

With regard to health records and legitimate access, which of the following is involved in level-two supportive services??

List the basic ethical principles that are foundational to the conduct of research using human subjects.​

Match each item to the statement or question listed below -A research committee set up to examine the protocol design for research to ensure that the research conforms to appropriate standards for humans

Which of the following is NOT considered a minimum standard set by institutional review boards??

Write a defense for the principle of confidentiality within health care from a duty-oriented point of view.​

The _________________ requires that healthcare providers refrain from acts of omissions that would foreseeably result in harm to others, especially in cases in which the individuals are particularly vulnerable to the risk.?

Match each item to the statement or question listed below -Federal legislation designed to encourage the use of electronic transmission of health information (to assist in cost containment) and provide new safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of the information

Explain how vulnerability guides the decision-making process when confidentiality is overridden by the duty to warn. Give an example.​

Explain and defend the court's decision in the Tarasoff case.

The allowance of unessential or lay personnel to be present during a surgical procedure or examination is a clinical example of: ?

From the vantage point of a _______________ perspective, the practice of patient confidentiality has been a mainstay of health care practice and forms one of the virtues one would expect from the "good practitioner."?

Match each item to the statement or question listed below -A review of the appropriateness of care and the various types of patient care provided within an institution

Explain why confidentiality is considered a principle with qualifications. Give examples.

Beginning with the Hippocratic Oath, Western health care providers have had strong guidance in regard to the maintenance of patient confidentiality. Certain non-Western cultures, such as the Chinese with equally long health care traditions, have had no traditional requirements in this area. Write an essay in regard to the concept that patient confidentiality is an unnecessary principle for health care.​