Since all DUMC employees are involved directly or indirectly in patient care, confidentiality is an important issue for everyone.
Breaches of confidentiality carry serious consequences.
As employees in a health care environment, we are constantly exposed to confidential information in a variety of forms, including written, verbal, photographic, and electronic. Being paid by an outsider for patient information is an obvious example of a breach in confidentiality, but not all confidentiality issues are as clear-cut. In an effort to help educate employees about confidentiality issues, this information sheet has been prepared to highlight a number of potential confidentiality scenarios. Don't leave your work station without logging out of your computer. You may wish to paste a reminder on your terminal.