1. Privacy Training
By
Emma Watson
MHA690: Health Care Capstone
10/11/12

2. Training is essential
Training in confidentiality of all patients records is vital to
the good standing of the healthcare organization. There have
been breach in confidentiality of patients personal records at
the UCLA Hospital where staff members looked into
celebrities medical records for personal information.

3. Patient Confidentiality and Breach Confidentiality
 Patient Confidentiality is the right of an individual patient to
have personal, identifiable medical information kept private;
such information should be available only to the physician of
record and other health care and insurance personnel as
necessary.
 A breach of confidentiality is a disclosure to a third
party, without patient consent or court order, of private
information that the physician has learned within the patient-
physician relationship. Disclosure can be oral or written, by
telephone or fax, or electronically, for example, via e-mail or
health information networks. The medium is
irrelevant, although special security requirements may apply to
the electronic transfer of information.

4. Training is designed to educate you on the importance of
Privacy and Security
This training program is design to protect individual
information and individual right to privacy and the
confidentially of patients and hospital information
which is in accordance to any state and federal laws and
regulations. It is everyone’s responsibility to take the
Confidentiality of patient information seriously.
Anytime you come in contact with patient information
that is written, spoken or electronically
stored, the law requires us to be train.

5. Why Do We Need to Protect PHI?
 It’s the law.
 To protect our reputation.
 To avoid potential withholding of federal Medicaid and
Medicare funds.
 To build trust between providers and patients.
 If patients feel that their Personal Health Information
will be kept confidential, they will be more likely to
share the information needed for their care.

6. The Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA)
 The Health Insurance
Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA)
of 1996 established
guidelines and regulations
for the use and disclosure of
information about patients’
records (An, et al., 2008).

7. HIPAA stands for:
Health
Insurance Portability and
Accountability
Act of 1996
or the (HIPAA) was endorsed by the U
S Congress. The HIPAA Privacy
Rule, also called the Standards for
Privacy of Individually Identifiable
Health Information.

8. HIPAA Regulations
 Brought individual privacy rights to patients.
 Require that we provide these rights to them.

9. Training Program:
 What breaching is, why breaching is wrong and the
consequences
 All employees and workforce members be informed and
understand of their responsibility to protect
confidentiality.
 To ensure that we have learned from the mistakes that
happened at UCLA hospital and not repeat them.

10. References:
 Fox News, (2008) Report: Over 120 UCLA Hospital Staff saw
Celebrity Health Records. Retrieved Oct. 10, 2012 from
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398784,00http://www.h
hs.gov/ocr/hipaa/privacy.html
 Over 120 UCLA Hospital Staff Saw Celebrity Health Records.
Retrieved Oct. 12, 2012 from
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398784,00.html.
 Patient Confidentiality (2012). American Medical Association.
Retrieved Oct. 10, 2012 from: http://www.ama-
assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/legal-topics/patient-
physician- relationship-topics/patient-confidentiality