Provider - Patient Relationship - Mod 2- Case

Running Head PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP

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Privacy and confidentiality of patients is an important element in the medical field . Health institutions should not disclose patients ' records to anyone . The constitution states that consent should be sought from the patients before the specified items in their medical records are released to interested parties . Although the use of consent is subject to debate since in some instances it leads use of data resources in the other areas other than healthcare related matters . The patient is required

to be free and frank in revealing his medical information to the physician to aid in diagnosing and proper administration of medication . The physician on his part is expected by medical of ethics to keep secret and confidential with certain exceptions by the law . This shows that a patient 's confidentiality is an ethical duty to the physician as well as a legal duty . Despite the existence of both the legal and ethical obligations , confidentiality of patients is being accessed without his consent and therefore the breach of confidentiality broken (Oken 1961

The use technology in the health system has allowed prevalent access to patients ' records . The electronic systems used in health are integrated and share common databases and therefore access to confidential medical information becomes easier to outside parties . These records are used for sales promotion purposes i .e . mostly in the telecommunication industry where their records are used as items of reference to in identification of customers . The oral privacy...