forensic: confidentiality
The obligation of professionals not to disclose information received from a client without the client's consent. While primarily an ethical obligation, confidentiality may also be a legal duty. (see privilege).*
Also: HIPAA
- American Health Information Management Association
- 42 USC Chapter 114: PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY FOR MENTALLY ILL INDIVIDUALS
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Health Privacy Project
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
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Books and Other
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- Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Commission For the Record - Protecting Electronic Health Information Hardcover 1997
- Dickson, Donald T Confidentiality and Privacy in Social Work - A Guide to the Law for Practitioners and Students Hardcover 1998
- Institute of Medicine The Computer-Based Patient Record - An Essential Technology for Health Care Paperback 1998
- McHale, Jean V Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege (Social Ethics and Policy Series) Hardcover 1993
- Rennert, Sharon AIDs-HIV and Confidentiality - Model Policy and Procedures Paperback 1991
- Saunders, Janet McGee Patient Confidentiality Paperback 1996
- Tomes, Jonathan P Healthcare Privacy and Confidentiality - The Complete Legal Guide Hardcover 1994
- Tomes, Jonathan P Healthcare Records - A Practical Legal Guide Hardcover 1990
Fiction
- Freeny, Michael Terminal Consent
Paperback 1998
"Terminal Consent is a medical thriller set against a revealing backdrop of managed care and the Internet. Amidst a murder and a love affair, a young psychologist is pitted against a sinister HMO that profits from patient deaths. She witnesses the open trading of private patient data, the destruction of lives from revealed secrets, and a computer named MOM who makes life and death decisions." - Mumford VHS | DVD (1999) Loren Dean, Hope Davis
*Committee on Psychiatry and Law, of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry The Mental Health Professional and the Legal System Paperback 1992 American Psychiatric Press