By DeVry University
February 5, 2024
6 min read
February 5, 2024
6 min read
Healthcare-focused organizations, from hospitals and recovery facilities to physicians’ offices and insurance plans have an obligation to protect the safety and privacy of their patients. This involves complying with the provisions of HIPAA, the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act. While HIPAA plays a major role, ethical issues in healthcare go beyond safety and privacy, having implications in the access to, and affordability of, quality healthcare in a system with a lot of moving parts.
This discussion will touch on several aspects of ethics in healthcare, including the importance of effective leadership in the institutions that represent milestones along the patient’s journey.
Three of the key ethical issues in healthcare reflect the complexities and challenges of our modern healthcare delivery system, according to Sermo:
Based on the rule’s provisions, it’s easy to see where covered entities, including hospitals and healthcare systems, medical practices of all kinds and sizes, insurance providers and others who process PHI need to maintain a robust cyber security infrastructure.
These organizations and their business associates should prioritize cyber security by conducting regular cyber security assessments as part of an overall risk management strategy to gain a clear picture of their vulnerabilities, safeguard against data breaches, avoid disruption to consumer-facing applications and avoid penalties.
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