Sharing patient information electronically throughout NHS: Patient confidentiality may not be guaranteed

Sharing patient information between professionals: confidentiality and ethics.

Careful consideration of the ethical implications is required before patient information should be shared without the patient's knowledge. Routine and apparently uncontroversial releases of information can be perceived as problematic by patients. The ethics of such "ordinary" breaches of confidence can be explored by considering the patient's autonomy, the patient's best interests, and the publ...

Patient Satisfaction With Information Sharing.

Emergency Medicine specialty May Improve Patient Satisfaction

Re-evaluating confidentiality: using patient information in teaching and publications†

Case studies used in psychiatry for teaching and learning can include large amounts of personal information, and most medical journals refuse to publish case material without patient consent. However, not all patients are capable of consenting and maintaining anonymity is not always successful. Disclosure of personal information without consent can cause a sense of violation, but a principle of...

ASHP statement on confidentiality of patient health care information.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) believes that all medical information is sensitive and should be given the utmost protection. ASHP supports the adoption into federal law of a minimum standard for protection of individually identifiable patient health information and believes that states should retain the ability to adopt standards that are more stringent than federal la...