Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
Lecture:Definitions of privacy, confidentiality, and security
Slide content:Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security Summary Lecture a Privacy is the right to keep information to ourselves, whereas confidentiality is the right to keep information about ourselves from being disclosed to others For many reasons, breaches and disclosures of patient information are increasing De-identified information is not necessarily more secure 22
Slide notes:This concludes Lecture a of Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security . In summary, its important to distinguish privacy , which is the right to keep information to yourself, from confidentiality , which is the right to keep information about yourself from being disclosed to others. For many reasons, breaches and disclosures of patient information are increasing. In addition, the concept of de-identified information is not necessarily as secure as originally thought. 22