Electronic Violation Of Hippocratic Oath Patients

The Hippocratic Oath is important because it keeps all of the patients health information secure. As a result of the Hippocratic Oath patients are able to trust doctors to keep their reason for seeking help confidential and will do no harm. A violation of HIPAA can be verbal or electronic. An example of a electronic violation of the Hippocratic oath is when you are on your computer looking at a patients files. In the middle of looking through the files you get called because you are needed in another room and you do not close out the files. Anyone in your office or that walks by your office can potentially see those patient files you were looking tough. An example of a verbal violation of HIPAA is when you are on the phone talking about the