Healthcare
Technology gives us more capabilities than we ever had before, and health care organizations need to ensure that their staff members are aware of the regulations surrounding the use of technology in the workplace, both for work-related activities and private activities. The prompt was of a nurse who took photos of a celebrity and texted them to her friend. This action constitutes a violation of HIPAA, wherein the Privacy Rule holds the health care providers must safeguard information from your medical records, any information that is recorded by the health care provider, billing information and any other health information (HHS.gov, 2015). Furthermore, there has clearly been an ethical violation committed with regards to the recording of the patient without their consent, and the distribution of that material. Patient information is always confidential in nature, by ethics even if not by law (Mulholland, 1994). This paper will examine the situation presented in the prompt through the lens of nursing privacy laws and ethics.
HIPAA Regulatory Requirements
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes in its provisions the Privacy Rule, which afford patients a certain amount of privacy in the digital age. The Rule "establishes national standards to protect individuals' medical records and other personal health information…" (HHS.gov, 2015). In part 164.105, the law references "protected health information" (HIPAA, 2007). Based on this, the nurse violated HIPAA by revealing the medical records of the victim, his demographic information including home address. Even the photograph of the victim, which would convey his current health status, may fall under HIPAA. The law exists to afford patients the right to privacy. While the law was written more specifically for the everyday conduct of a health care organization, as opposed to the use described...
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