Algunas amenazas actuales a la confidencialidad en medicina
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Social, technical and legal conditions of the current practice of medicine
make it necessary to insist on certain actions and circumstances that may
jeopardize the confidentiality of information, offered by patients to their
health providers. Therefore, some effects of the current Chilean law are
analyzed in this respect, regarding access to data from the clinical record
of a patient. Also, the risks of putting certain data on social networking
sites are analyzed, as well as some of its effects on clinical practice. The
reasons because of mandatory reporting of diseases, meaning danger to
public health, is allowed, are mentioned. We also discuss the difficulties
involved in managing the results of preventative health screenings and its
knowledge by third parties, as well as some possible violations of personal
privacy, regarding dissemination of some people health information and
its further mention or figuration in mass media. We conclude that it is a
must for both physicians and other health team members, to safeguard
confidentiality of data to which they have had access, as well as the need to
know the relevant law, in order to respect human dignity of patients, each
one as a person. We address the attention to the possibility that, practicing
in a different way, it could endanger the reliability of clinical records, also
impairing the quality of people’s health care.
(Rev Med Chile 2015; 143: 358-366)
Key words: Access to Information; Confidentiality; Information Dissemination;
Medical Records; Social Networking
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Access to Information; Confidentiality; Information Dissemination; Medical Records; Social Networking
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Rev Med Chile 2015; 143: 358-366