Influence of ethical principles on healthcare

The importance of patient privacy

The legal responsibility of healthcare providers is to protect against improper disclosure of the health data of patients. The patients are concerned about discrimination linked to HIV and other related circumstances. The health information of a patient provided to a healthcare provider is not divulged to others unless the patient provides their consent to the disclosure of the data to others. The leaders are addressing the ethical aspects of privacy in order to maintain the confidentiality of the patient’s healthcare data. It stems from a respect for autonomy as well as information self-control (Bani Issa et al., 2020).Improper disclosure of the patient’s information is a threat to the reputation of the patient and human dignity.

The ways in which health care in Saudi Arabia can enhance accountability with patient privacy through Saudi Vision 2030 are:

1. The Ministry of Health is required to increase the usage of the available resources for the healthcare sector so that there is management of patient privacy.
2. There is a need for an increase in training as well as development of the privacy programme so that the healthcare staff can get to know how to keep the patient’s data in a secured location.
3. There is improvement in governance in the healthcare system to enhance accountability in terms of quality issues along with safety of the patient’s data (Hamza et al., 2020).
4. There is an improvement in quality and safety principles in the healthcare sector so that the healthcare providers have the required skills and knowledge to keep the confidential data protected.
5. The Ministry of Health increases capacity along with the quality of healthcare education through a partnership with the Ministry of Education so that healthcare providers can get to know how to secure the data of their patients.
6. Digital healthcare innovations are supporting the vision of 2030 as it aims to involve 70% of Saudi Arabia's citizens in digital records by 2030. Information technology solutions will help the healthcare sector improve performance as well as productivity of healthcare providers (Tembhare et al., 2019). It also enables the business to have a better quality of service offered to the patients.
7. Saudi nationals who are working in the private sector are required to have medical insurance, and therefore, the citizens are getting free coverage of the medical facilities (Chenthara et al., 2019). It is required to develop products that can cater to the employees to meet the future needs of healthcare services.

Transparency in the healthcare sector is being achieved through consistent terminology across the care settings. Without transparency in the healthcare sector, it looks like access to the data is a threat to the business. Healthcare transparency is to be maintained as reliable, and the quality of the healthcare information is also maintained properly. There is a focus on maintaining customer experiences as well as business efficiency so that healthcare providers can provide an efficient level of patient care (Bani Issa et al., 2020).Healthcare education and provision to improve the training facilities are catered for at the domestic and international level with links to public-private partnerships.

References

Bani Issa, W., Al Akour, I., Ibrahim, A., Almarzouqi, A., Abbas, S., Hisham, F., & Griffiths, J. (2020). Privacy, confidentiality, security and patient safety concerns about electronic health records. International nursing review, 67(2), 218-230.

Chenthara, S., Ahmed, K., Wang, H., & Whittaker, F. (2019). Security and privacy-preserving challenges of e-health solutions in cloud computing. IEEE access, 7, 74361-74382.

Hamza, R., Yan, Z., Muhammad, K., Bellavista, P., & Titouna, F. (2020). A privacy-preserving cryptosystem for IoT E-healthcare. Information Sciences, 527, 493-510.

Tembhare, A., Chakkaravarthy, S. S., Sangeetha, D., Vaidehi, V., & Rathnam, M. V. (2019). Role-based policy to maintain privacy of patient health records in cloud. The Journal of Supercomputing, 75(9), 5866-5881.