Administrative Ethics Paper

HCS 335

Administrative Ethics Paper

In today's world of technology patient's face an ever challenging issue of protecting their privacy. One of the biggest areas infringing on a patient's privacy would be the prescription health information that is being released by pharmacists and the way in which that information is used. Information is given to a wide variety of entities and to individuals, which raises enormous concern about the privacy rights of patients, especially considering the fact that the patient has not given consent for the release of this information.

Legislative and judicial attention is being given on how to protect privacy identifiable information on prescription data and the harm that can be done by the release of this information....