Health Sciences 2045A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Medical Privacy, Surrogate Decision-Maker, Implied Consent
20 Jan 2017
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Learning objectives: understand the key concepts in the privacy legislation. Collection, use and disclosure of personal health information. Privacy breach: how to comply with the legislation in practice and apply confidentiality principles in practice, overview of recent legislative changes. Share your knowledge and/or experience as a student as a staff/affiliate in a health care setting or in the community e. g. non-regulated health employee, volunteer, student trust, dignity, being a professional. Trust us and make sure secrets are safe. Not worry that health professionals will gossip about them. Trust that you will show their family respect. Knowing it could be you or your loved one. Earning complete confidence in the care we provide. All residents, patients and clients under the care of st. joseph"s health care london and all staff and affiliates have a fundamental right to have their personal health information/person information treated in confidence. Medical information is worth 10 x more than your credit card number on the black-market.
