"I respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems I'm not aware that the world can know." (1) This excerpt from the modern Hippocratic Oath, the oath every doctor, it was determined to ensure that every patient has the information and status to private.
The communal spaces a hospital pharmacy or hospital often does not reflect the principle of medical privacy. For example, lined up waiting to ask the pharmacist, a personal Question can be an embarrassing and even traumatizing examination as complete strangers stand within earshot. For many patients with simple to personal health information Spread (PHI) can be an unpleasant event in itself. Couple this fear with security and privacy risks associated with something of a personal nature, especially one's own medical data. Being sick today or go to an annual audit or spa visit connotes a hesitation in patients who are all on the alert for things like identity theft.
However, access to health care providers online is less stressful and more practical for many patients. "People are often more comfortable talking to a computer, when they see a doctor, "said Dr. Delbanco, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and lead author of an article on doctors and e-mail in the current New England Journal of Medicine (2). But ask the convenience of e-mail to your doctor or clinic to your provider risks.As opens the digital worlds and health care prior to their symbiotic Relationship in the 21st. Century new threats to personal health information have emerged in recent years.
Do you have your e-mail request to the right person at your clinic? Do they directly answer the e-mail or use the contact information in their electronic medical record database? In a 2005 study are 70% of Americans concerned that health information could be revealed as a result of weak data security (3). With each technological progress, both in the medical field and patients must have the seriousness of the misuse of public health information (PHI) announced. After the Heath Privacy Project, a patient rights information website, One of five patients are victims of improper disclosure (4).
Despite all of these risks, patients continue to use email and the Internet to try to Answers to various questions of health. Some sites to visit, such as WebMD's Symptom Checker, why are they found my left leg is swollen, while others Just to spend time on sites such as the American Diabetes Association, the pure, the specific health issues. Research and therefore patients often ask questions about its conditions after clinics closed.
"It is a matter of convenience and comfort," Dr. Delbanco, an advocate for the continuation the partnership of e-mail, Internet and Medicine says. "In the office, a doctor sitting in a white coat exudes authority, which can be frightening. There is evidence that people tend to be more open in front of the computer, especially with difficult things like alcohol or sexual behaviors. "(5)
Online behavior shows that not only many patients, but in the medical field, access to medical information one step further to bring. Both healthcare providers and patients want to use the Internet as a tool in their personal health communication. "The Internet will increasingly change patients' expectations of clinicians, so that Doctors routinely need to offer services such as e-messaging, instant messaging, video conferencing and other online services, "said Dr. Daniel Z. Sands, a primary care Internist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (6).
Trends in Internet usage patients show that now is the time for patient and physician to achieve a cooperative symbiosis in the digital ether. The digital medical department is a real possibility, but measures must be created, in order to protect private patient health information and a clinic electronic medical records.
The Internet has changed how and where required by individuals the help of doctors and medical providers. The e-care provider can talk with his patients in a variety of online communication tools, the more the symbiotic relationship between doctor and patient. The oath of Hippocrates, the teachings of the treatment, respect for privacy can be upheld as long as electronic security is also a priority for clinicians.
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Endnotes:
1.), Louis Lasagna, "Oath of Hippocrates, modern version," Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, 1964. Emphasis on "Nova Online, Survivor MD" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_modern.html
2.) Anahad O'Connor, "Take Two Aspirin, E-Mail Me Tomorrow", The New York Times, section F, column 5, Health & Fitness; Pg 7th LexisNexis 30th September 2005.
3.) "The majority of Americans have concerns about privacy Electronic Medical Record System," Health Privacy Project (www.heathprivacy.org): [http://www.healthprivacy.org/info-url_nocat2303/info-url_nocat_show.htm?doc_id=263085]
4.) Health Privacy Project Home Animation http://www.healthprivacy.org. 29 September 2005.
5.) Anahad O'Connor, "Take Two Aspirin, E-Mail Me Tomorrow", The New York Times, section F, column 5, Health & Fitness; Pg 7th LexisNexis 30 September 2005th
6.) Dr. Daniel Z. Sands, cited in: Susannah Fox, Janna Quinney, Lee Rainie, "The Future of the Internet," Pew Internet & American Life Project, Editor 4 January 2005. 4.
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The HIPAA article, “The Hippocratic Oath Upheld PHI, Your Personal Health Information Kept Private” was a collaboration between Marilee Venieags and Roman Martinez. Ms. Veniegas is an alumni of the University of Washington. She joined the Marketing team at Essential Security Software, Inc. in 2005. She also serves as one of the ESS site editors for I Want My ESS! a stolen work and SMB resource site. Mr. Martinez is currently a senior in the UW Communications Deptartment he has also worked in PR and radio.
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