This Agreement is made between ________________________("INSERT EMPLOYEE FIRST AND LAST NAME") and Palace Home Health Care on __________________20___( INSERT DATE OF HIRE). EMPLOYEE will perform services for Palace Home Health Care which may require us to disclose confidential and proprietary information ("Confidential Information") to EMPLOYEE. (Confidential Information is any information of any kind, nature, or description concerning any matters affecting or relating to Employee's services for Palace Home Health Care, the business or operations of Palace Home Health Care, and/or the products, drawings, plans, processes, or other data of Palace Home Health Care). Accordingly, to protect the Confidential Information that will be disclosed to …show more content…
EMPLOYEE will hold the Confidential Information of any patient names, lists of referral sources, referring physicians and hospitals, any trade secrets, or nursing procedures received from Palace Home Health Care in strict confidence and shall exercise a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure to others. _____________ (EMPLOYEE INITIALS) B. EMPLOYEE will not disclose or divulge either directly or indirectly the Confidential Information to others unless first authorized to do so in writing by both the CEO and Human Resources Palace Home Health Care. Exceptions is patient information for purpose of state audits, or referrals to Department of Family and Protective Services. _____________ (EMPLOYEE INITIALS) C. EMPLOYEE will not reproduce the Confidential Information nor use this information commercially or for any purpose other than the performance of his/her duties for Palace Home Health Care. _____________ (EMPLOYEE
An employee should uphold the confidentiality of information assigned to them by the company and its customers, except when revelation of such information is authorized or required by applicable laws, rules or regulations. “Confidential information” includes all records, non-public information related to the company and its business, customers, or vendors that come to an employee in the course of carrying out the employee’s duties and that can be value to competitors or damaging to the company or its business if revealed.
To begin the understanding of confidentiality, the author first provided readers with a formal concept analysis on confidentiality. He explained how confidentiality did not truly become a concept of interested until 1961, when the general nursing guides made a small mention related to the concept in regards to privileged
1.1 Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and socail care
Roles and responsibility of the work are adhered to. Personal information about patient are kept confidential except where it is necessary with other staff that care for the same patient or to the health care team attending to them.
Disclosing confidential patient information without patient consent can happen in the health care field quite often and is the basis for many cases brought against health care facilities. There are many ways confidential information gets into the wrong hands and this paper explores some of those ways and how that can be prevented.
In the health care business, there are certain standards and laws that have been put in place to protect our patients and their personal health information. When a health care facility fails to protect their patient’s confidential information, the US Government may get involved and facilities may be forced to pay huge sums of money in fines, and risk damaging their reputation.
CCC staff are expected to treat all Protected Health Information (“PHI”) and Personally Identifiable Information ( ”PII”) in any form (paper, electronic, or verbal) as confidential in accordance with government regulations and are not to divulge PHI unless the patient, or a legally authorized representative has properly authorized a release of information, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. CCC staff will only release the minimum amount of information necessary to fulfill a
The fifth member of the team is the medical records manager. She has a bachelors in healthcare management. Her expertise with HIPAA rules and regulations is crucial. It is her job to evaluate security of the new systems to ensure that patient confidentiality is not breached. She will have input form other healthcare managers as well as others in the medical records department.
All of the staff need to make sure that confidentiality is paramount. Staff have to read and understand the Data Protection Act of 1998. We have to make sure that we are clear about our standards of conduct, that we are expected to meet. We are encouraged to use the codes of conduct to maintain our own practice
Therefore every care practitioner should endeavour to promote theses rights when dealing with services users and their relatives. Furthermore, it is crucial for service users to understand that any information they give will be with strict confidentiality. It is a legal requirement for health and social care services to keep personal data confidential.
Keeping information safe and only passing it on where there is a clear right to it and a clear need to do so, is an important right for all service users because: 1. Service users may not trust a care worker who does not keep information confidential; 2. Service users may not feel valued or able to keep their self-esteem if their private details are shared with others; 3. Service user’s safety may be put at risk if details of their
Records should only show information that is essential to the service but there may be conflicts or dilemmas when a practitioner is asked to share information or the information might identify the person, or the information is confidential. The practitioner is unsure about the need to share the information, how much to share and when and how it can be shared.
Providers should ensure that all staff are aware of the need to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
"Treat information about patients and clients as confidential and use it only for the purpose for which it was given."
Health care professionals are subject to a multitude of professional, legal, and ethical responsibilities which call for personal judgment to be utilized in such a manner as to protect clients as well as public wellness and interests. Overall considerations in handling such duties may be considered to be respect of a client’s autonomy, confidence, and recognition of obligations owed to all clients. While the aforementioned acts fall within the professional realm, there are also legal implications that guide care. Therefore, it can be said that ethical considerations occur in observation of legal responsibilities. Confidential information is perceived as private facts which are disclosed with the