Question

Construct a set of 12 bulleted guidelines as a financial specialist to enable my agency to implement each of the five principles of privacy: confidentiality, access,a anonymity, security, and abridgement

Answer 1

Answer of the above question is given below.

• Privacy: “The right of individuals to be left alone and to be protected against physical or psychological invasion or the misuse of their property. It includes freedom from intrusion or observation into one's private affairs, the right to maintain control over certain personal information, and the freedom to act without outside interference.”

• Confidential: The “status accorded to data or information indicating that it is sensitive for some reason, and therefore it needs to be protected against theft, disclosure, or improper use, or both, and must be disseminated only to authorized individuals or organizations with a need to know.”

• Data Security: “The result of effective data protection measures; the sum of measures that safeguard data and computer programs from undesired occurrences and exposure to accidental or intentional access or disclosure to unauthorized persons, or a combination thereof; accidental or malicious alteration; unauthorized copying; or loss by theft or destruction by hardware failures, software deficiencies, operating mistakes; physical damage by fire, water, smoke, excessive temperature, electrical failure or sabotage; or a combination thereof. Data security exists when data are protected from accidental or intentional disclosure to unauthorized persons and from unauthorized or accidental alteration.”

• System Security: “The totality of safeguards including hardware, software, personnel policies, information practice policies, disaster preparedness, and oversight of these components. Security protects both the system and the information contained within from unauthorized access from without and from misuse from within. Security enables the entity or system to protect the confidential information it stores from unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse, thereby protecting the privacy of the individuals who are the subjects of the stored information.”

Ethical concerns about the conduct of biomedical research, especially research involving the interaction of the clinical research community with its patients and commercial funding agencies, have produced an impetus to make financial and other arrangements more public. The discussion of transparency in this chapter includes recommendations for the public disclosure of registry operations as a means of maintaining public trust and confidence in the use of health information for registry purposes. Reliance on a standing advisory committee is recommended to registry developers as a way to provide expert technical guidance for registry operations and to firmly establish the independence of the registry from committed or conflicted interests.

Note: The guidelines are written in the paragraph.