Patient Privacy

Paper Summary:

This paper examines health care records in the networked computerized age and the legislation that protects the patient's privacy. It describes the new law and illustrates its difficult application in a real working environment. The author of the paper illustrates the dangers of networked patient health information as it passes between medical professionals, and how it's susceptible to hackers.

From the Paper:

"Patient privacy is becoming a very important issue. It is so important that legislation has been passed to make sure that doctors and other health care providers retain the confidentiality of their patients' records. The legislation, called HIPAA, is very hard to implement, however, because of the use of technology to transfer patient information. Any time computers are involved extra safeguards need to be put into place in order to make sure that hackers cannot get into the system and access patient files."

More papers on Patient Privacy:

• Analytical Essay # 123854 : "Patient Privacy Issues"
• Analytical Essay # 123686 : "Health Care and Patient Privacy"
• Term Paper # 112445 : "Patient Privacy in an Electronic World"

APA Citation:

MLA Citation: