Health records and information regarding patients are subject to privacy laws. Chapter 7 explains that the patient–physician relationship is one protected from disclosure by privileged communication, which extends to office personnel and other delegated employees.This chapter discusses that federal law requires that all health care providers who treat Medicare patients use electronic health records (EHR)..
- Chapter 8 introduces the matter of medical ethics, sometimes identified as bioethics. Making an ethical decision may be quite simple or very difficult. You will learn that it is easy to get lost in a multitude of factual details or go off on a tangent without addressing the problem.This chapter explains that where there is a fact pattern that contains an ethical dilemma, resolution requires distinguishing between clinical (medical), legal, and ethical issues.
- Chapter 9 covers privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communication, which are terms used to define the relationship between medical professionals and their patients and between legal professionals and their clients.
- Professional organizations have creeds and codes of ethics that proclaim standards the membership strives to maintain. This chapter explains that those standards, in part, define correct professional conduct.You will learn that, although medical office personnel do not make the headline ethical decisions, the interplay of power and scheduling of time is ethical in nature and affects both patients and personnel.
11.Chapter 11 explores ethical issues involving the rights of embryos, fetuses, birth issues, the neonatal period, and the growing child, which are gaining prominence.
- Chapter 12 acknowledges that each human being faces questions regarding death and dying. Working as a health care deliverer requires an ability to deal with these matters on a regular basis.
Choose write a short paragraph for each chapter and included references above each one.