TY - JOUR
T1 - From Hippocrates to HIPAA
T2 - Privacy and confidentiality in Emergency Medicine - Part II: Challenges in the emergency department
AU - Moskop, John C.
AU - Marco, Catherine A.
AU - Larkin, Gregory Luke
AU - Geiderman, Joel M.
AU - Derse, Arthur R.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - Part I of this article reviewed the concepts of privacy and confidentiality and described the moral and legal foundations and limits of these values in health care. Part II highlights specific privacy and confidentiality issues encountered in the emergency department (ED). Discussed first are physical privacy issues in the ED, including problems of ED design and crowding, issues of patient and staff safety, the presence of visitors, law enforcement officers, students, and other observers, and filming activities. The article then examines confidentiality issues in the ED, including protecting medical records, the duty to warn, reportable conditions, telephone inquiries, media requests, communication among health care professionals, habitual patient files, the use of patient images, electronic communication, and information about minor patients.
AB - Part I of this article reviewed the concepts of privacy and confidentiality and described the moral and legal foundations and limits of these values in health care. Part II highlights specific privacy and confidentiality issues encountered in the emergency department (ED). Discussed first are physical privacy issues in the ED, including problems of ED design and crowding, issues of patient and staff safety, the presence of visitors, law enforcement officers, students, and other observers, and filming activities. The article then examines confidentiality issues in the ED, including protecting medical records, the duty to warn, reportable conditions, telephone inquiries, media requests, communication among health care professionals, habitual patient files, the use of patient images, electronic communication, and information about minor patients.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.08.011
DO - 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.08.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 15635312
AN - SCOPUS:11144243167
SN - 0196-0644
VL - 45
SP - 60
EP - 67
JO - Annals of Emergency Medicine
JF - Annals of Emergency Medicine
IS - 1
ER -