Healthcare Information Management
Table of Contents
Acceptable Radisclosure for Health Information……………………………………………………………………….…….3
Safeguard to protect the confidentiality of Health Information………………………………….…….………….…….3
Parties Involved in developing a health care facility’s policy on disclosure of health information….……….4
Ignorance of Subpoena…………………………………………………………………………………………………….……….… 5
Is Health Information always Admissible as Evidence in Court?……………………………………..….………….…5
Should patients always have access to their own health information?………………………………………….……..6
Four Elements of Negligence………………………………………………………………………………………….…………...7
Discussion about Win and Loss Case in Medical Malpractice……………………………………………………………8
List of Parties that are liable for breach of Confidentiality………………………………………………………………..9
References………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…… 10
Acceptable Redisclosure for Health Information
Redisclosure is an act of sharing or releasing information that was received from another source
of information. This source of information may be any external facility or provider. Later on, this
information has become part of patient’s health record or designated record set of organization.
The records of designated record set are used for decision making process. Before start using
information, the accuracy of information is necessary to check and accurate information will be
acceptable. Here we have two examples of acceptable radisclosure for health information.
Suppose a patient is under care of pain management specialist and his pain is becoming difficult
to manage and pain management orders him for X-Ray and MRI. After diagnose this
information, it is got to know that patient has worsening spinal stenosis. Then pain management
refers the patient to an orthopedic surgeon and also send X-Ray and MRI along with patients.
Here X-Ray and MRI reports will be used by orthopedic surgeon to diagnose and give treatment
to patient. This type of Redisclosure for health information is acceptable. Other case where
redisclosure for health information can be accepted, when a patient already has a complete
diagnose report that is given by one hospital to other. Suppose a patient is involved in an accident
and he/she is evaluated in a local hospital, but patient has to transfer to rehabilitation hospital for
better treatment. In this case, the complete diagnose evaluation report of patient will be sent to
rehabilitation hospital by local hospital and this redisclosure will be acceptable.
(Library.ahima.org, 2016)
Safeguard to protect the confidentiality of Health Information
In medical transcripts, the data of patients must be secured and entrusted. That is why proper
security and confidentiality of health information is required. The key safeguard to protect the
confidentiality of health information is to use privacy rule. This privacy rule describes the set of
national standards for protection of different types of health information of individuals. These
protection standards are collaboratively known as protected health information (PHI). At
violation of these protection standards, strict actions must be taken against that particular person
for maintaining security for long time. Besides this confidentiality safeguard, other security
parameter that can be used for health information is usage of database security tools such as
authorized access, use of anti-virus software etc. These tools will secure database and its records
appropriately from unauthorized access and modification. (HIPAA, 2016)
Parties Involved in developing a health care facility’s policy on disclosure of health
information
Health Information management professionals play major role to provide healthcare facility and
management of records of patients. Besides this, health information management professionals,
