Confidentiality is the actual protection such information receives from the provider organizations.
An individual's personal and health information include those that were supplied by the individual and those observed by the care giver during the course of the delivery of care. Security is the measure that an organization has employed to protect the confidentiality of the patient information. In essence, privacy of an individual's health information depends on the level of confidentiality maintained by organizations, which in turn depends on the security measures implemented by them. Respect for privacy and confidentiality of patient information must be adopted and fostered as an essential organizational policy and culture. Security measures that are failsafe must be utilized.