[Solved]: Reply to this post: Healthcare practitioners have a…

Reply to this post: Healthcare practitioners have a moral responsibility to utilize informatics technology to ensure patient confidentiality, accuracy, and privacy. HIPAA regulations constrain nurses to guarantee that patient information is accessed and disclosed only as necessary for treatment (Hulkower et al., 2020). Authentication, logging off of EHRs, and restricting access to patient records are requirements for preventing unauthorized use. There was more than one ethical violation in this scenario. Carol demonstrated professional responsibility when she allowed Henry, a student, to enter into the EHR, which he is not qualified to do. Henry also demonstrated ethical guidelines by accessing other patients’ records for no valid purpose. George’s failure to log out led to abuse of the system, and Samuel violated confidentiality by accessing a patient’s record out of curiosity. These practices violate autonomy, beneficence, and justice principles by breaching patient privacy and security. To prevent this, Carol should have logged off or done the documentation herself. Employees should also be trained to shut down their computers when leaving and avoid accessing unauthorized information (Chu & So, 2020). In my practice, compliance is enforced through logging out of systems when they are left alone and having explicit limits regarding patient confidentiality, reminding others of the ethical utilization of EHR.