PROFESSIONALISM AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION

Medical records contain confidential or personal information of patients. Apart from the physicians and nurses, transcriptionists also come to know the patient data; personal health information contained in the medical records. Anyone in the Healthcare Team is to have ethical values, keeping the confidentiality and protecting the privacy of the patients’ health information. Disclosing the personal information contained in the medical records would be breach of ethics and HIPAA Compliance. Professionalism calls for confidentiality and privacy for each patient.

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