As a healthcare practitioner, a complaint can be lodged against you with the Information Regulator. This could result in criminal prosecution, which if convicted could mean a 10 year prison sentence; or a fine of up to R 10 million, or both!
It is extremely important for all parties handling health related information to assess their practices policies for dealing with health related and personal information.
Learn to identify all reasonably foreseeable risks and to establish appropriate safeguards within your practice.
• What Constitutes a Health Record
• The Rights of Patients to Information
• Patient's Right to Confidentiality
• Protecting Information
• Alteration of Records
• The Right of Patients to Information
• Disclosure of Information to others Providing Care
• Electronic Processing of Information
• Ownership of Records
• Access of Records