medical transcriptionist
You are a medical transcriptionist for a psychiatric office. You have just enrolled your 2-year-old child in an at-home daycare. You are filing transcribed reports when you run across the name of your new child caregiver. You are immediately concerned that you have left your child with a person who may have a serious mental illness. You think it is okay to look at the file for your own information, as long as you do not disclose the information to anybody else, as you do have access to all of the charts. Is this correct? Why or why not?
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Health care providers have legal, moral, and ethical obligations to keep patients’ personal health information confidential thus, trust and respect is created between the health providers and their patients. The patients will therefore feel comfortable providing their information to the practitioners when they seek medical care………………………
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