Identify the benefits and disadvantages of a deceased patient's medical records being accessible to any person with a claim arising from the death.
Answer.
Disclose of the information after the deceased of the patient by any person is not allowed untill and unless they follow the legal authority to get the information.
The benefits for accessible the record of decease patient are
- this helps to understand the disease and go through the medical record.
- able to get proper report for the dealth of the patient.
- able to understand the care, treatment, services provided by the health care provider and crosscheck it.
- this can help to understand whether the person died because of negliby the care giver.
- the information can be used to claimed for the life insurances
- this helps to find out any genetic disease was present in the family member before.
Disadvantages are
- the person may misuse the information by sharing the condition of the patient to ohters.
- lack of confidentiality for the patient information. Even if the patient was deceased also, the health care provider should maintain the confidentiality.
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