Confidentiality & Privacy
One of the highest obligations required of a dietitian is to protect the confidentiality and privacy of a client’s personal health information.
Without confidentiality, clients would not be forthcoming or trust their health care providers with the very private and personal information necessary for their care.
Privacy is a much broader concept than confidentiality. Privacy involves not only protecting personal information, but also limiting when and how it is collected and used.
Guidelines
Legislation
- New Obligations for Privacy Health Information(2020)
- Privacy Legislation and What It Means
- The Ten Principles for Privacy of Personal Information
- Missing Persons Act 2018: Allows Police to Make an urgent Demand for Records
- PIPEDA Alert: Privacy Legislation – What’s it all about?
Privacy Breaches
Health Information Custodian (HIC)
Scenarios
Disclosing Personal Health Information
- Sharing Personal Information Within the Circle of Care
- Disclosing Personal Health Information within the Circle of Care
- What is the Lock-Box Provision?
- Disclosing Personal Health Information to a Children’s Aid Society – scenario 1
- Disclosing Personal Health Information to the CAS – scenario 2
- Marketing Scheme
- Don’t Speak to My Doctor
- I’m Pregnant, Please Don’t Tell My Mother!
Preserving Confidentiality and Privacy
- Running into a Client in a Social Setting
- Transporting Client Information
- Working in a Non-Healthcare Facility