Torrevieja health collects a Decalogue guidelines for action to ensure the confidentiality of their patients.

-The ten commandments of confidentiality brings together the main issues related to confidentiality as users right, obligation of the professionals and the commitment implied by the organization

-the ten commandments of confidentiality of the Department of health of Torrevieja delves into issues such as the channels and means of communication with patients and families

TorreviejaApril of 2013- the computerization of medical history represents a major advance in the management of information and at the same time an added duty of care in the treatment of the data. Thus, the Bioethics Committee of the Department of health of Torrevieja has published a Decalogue of confidentiality, accessible to all employees, which brings together the main issues related to confidentiality as the users right, obligation to professionals and commitment involved in the organization.

This Committee, which already developed a code of ethics and ethics, addresses this Decalogue issues such as the ownership of the information concerning the State of health of patients, publicizing the importance of referring to the own sick when someone wants to know some question about the State of health of the same. Sometimes family members address issues related to the situation of their ill relatives without realizing the commitment of professionals to ensure the confidentiality of the users. Thus, the patient must be the main source of information, moving to their families and loved ones the questions concerning your health status.

The Decalogue of confidentiality of the Department of health of Torrevieja delves into issues such as the channels and means of communication with patients and their families; It is especially important not to supply information in telephone manner since it is not possible to ensure the identity of the recipient or the use that will make it.

document recommends that practitioners consider all clinical documentation as sensitive material ”, thus guaranteeing the confidentiality of data and promoting the rights of patients in this regard. Thus, this Decalogue is particularly sensitive with the confidentiality of minors or persons with serious illness or cognitive impairment, its even more, if possible, the considerations in this regard.

The right to confidentiality persists after death. Therefore, practitioners should only provide information to legally authorized persons if there is no express prohibition by the patient or violated the privacy of third parties.

Ethical and deontological code

It should be recalled that general principles in the medical actions should be based must have respect for the dignity of the person reflected in the universal declaration of human rights as a fundamental reference. In the case of the Department of health of Torrevieja this reference focuses on four fundamental principles: autonomy (the patient is owner of his own life and the conditions in which it develops), charity (the medical Act seek the benefit of the patient above any other except its own autonomy)Not Maleficiencia (must be actions that, ultimately, overall harm to the patient or their rights as a person) and justice (all patients have equal rights).