Patient Privacy




Patient Privacy
In the case study, it is found that there was the issue of the use of commercial ‘off-shelf’ systems that were designed to achieve financial obligations and did not address a number of challenges such as ensuring privacy of information. As a result, there was lack of privacy of patients’ information and anyone could know information about a particular patient. This was addressed by applying the use of electronics health records (EHR0 that served the purpose of ensuring data was stored in electronic format and those who were not permitted to access the data could not do so.
In addition, the Vista software was developed so that organizations could download the software and use in its operations such as management if data.
Another problem observed in the case study is that initially, there were procedures that involved a number of activities that were less significant in performance of tasks but only resulted into increased workloads, consumption of work spaces and involved a number of lab tests which made clinical activities complicated and there were high chances of making medication errors. However, this problem was solved by implementing patient safety system that involved the use of veteran health information Systems (VHS) which ensured safety was achieved to an accuracy level of 99.97 per cent through establishing areas where medication errors exist and also provide a track of areas where evidence-based treatment standards have not been implemented.
Thesis Statement
Patient privacy has been an issue of concern in a number of health institutions. This is because while efforts have been made to ensure patients information is kept safe, this effort has not been reached because a number of organizations have implemented information storing methods which allows unauthorized persons to access the information and even publicize it which has both moral and psychological impacts on patients. However, in this paper, it can be applied by use of electronic records of information stored in the systems.
In addition, the process of managing patient information and ensuring patient privacy can be improved by implementing the Veteran health systems (VHS) illustrated in the case study above. This is where the system can be used to detect whether wrong persons have accessed patient information so that corrective measures can be taken to ensure safety of the information so that patient privacy is enhanced.  The system will also enable identification of professionals who do not keep patient information safely and ensuring privacy of patients is held paramount.
Other Questions Related to the Topic
If I was in charge of addressing the problems being addressed in the case study, my leadership role would involve providing a guide on the manner in which the new system needs to be used to ensure data is stored safely and also assist my subordinates to download and install VistA into the computer systems and teach them how to use the system to manage data safely.
This topic is of great importance to health information systems because it ensures modern strategy of storage of information is implemented in health sector so that confidentiality of information is attained.
The main issues identified are lack of safety of information produced by customers to the health institution and the possibility of making errors when traditional methods of managing patient information are achieved.  The required improvements are to use the VistA software which ensures the data is kept under protection and cannot be accessed by other people.
The impact of ensuring patient privacy ensures the patient’s privacy is observed and the p[patient will be comfortable to come back t the health facility in the future due to the concern of heath workers to their needs.
The impact on staff and the organization n as a whole is that they acquire the right approach to management of patients where errors are minimized and their competences implemented.
The current conclusions that can be drawn from this study is that there exists a range of technologies which can contribute towards improved patient information management as well as tracking possibilities of errors which also ensure the rights of patients to privacy of information is observed.













References
Hosek, S. D., Straus, S. G., Arroyo Center., & RAND Health. (2013). Patient privacy, consent,
            and identity management in health information exchange: Issues for the military health
            system. Oxford University Press.
Shoniregun, C. A., Dube, K., & Mtenzi, F. (2010). Electronic healthcare information security.
            New York: Springer.
Wanberg, C. R. (2012). The Oxford handbook of organizational socialization. New York:


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