Privacy Policy
This privacy statement describes WHO's policy concerning the gathering and sharing of visitors' information through the WHO website.Patient privacy encompasses a number of aspects, including personal space (physical privacy), personal data (informational privacy), personal choices including cultural and religious affiliations (decisional privacy), and personal relationships with family members and other intimates (associational privacy).
The Privacy Rule, a Federal law, gives you rights over your health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information. The Privacy Rule applies to all forms of individuals’ protected health information, whether electronic, written, or oral. Medical privacy or health privacy is the practice of maintaining the security and confidentiality of patient records. … The terms can also refer to the physical privacy of patients from other patients and providers while in a medical facility, and to modesty in medical settings.
Ensuring privacy can promote more effective communication between physician and patient, which is essential for quality of care, enhanced autonomy, and preventing economic harm, embarrassment.
Clarke’s four categories of privacy, outlined in 1997, include privacy of the person, privacy of personal data, privacy of personal behaviour and privacy of personal communication. Privacy of the person has also been referred to as “bodily privacy” and is specifically related to the integrity of a person’s body.
Build a security culture in your organization.
Perform a security risk assessment.
Create a PHI security improvement plan.
Encrypt all patient data.