On The Protection Of The Rights Of Patient Privacy

Rights of patient privacy, refer to the patients’rights to ask medical institutions and staffs to give legal protect for its patients’personal secret in the process of diagnoses and treatment. With the progress of modern society, people’s rights consciousness increases constantly and people gradually realize the importance of privacy. But the provisions of the patients privacy protection system in China haven’t got corresponding improvements as a result of the weakness of people’s consciousness, the misunderstanding of the the influence of traditional medicine, the irregular procedure of diagnosis, and the difficulties to protect patients’ rights, etc. This fact not only makes it hard to maintain the damage facts, the faults of medical institutions and the scope of power, but also bring conflicts between patients’privacy right and medical organizations’right to know certain information about patients and conflicts between personal interests and social public interests. To some extent, these factors also contribute to the infringement. To solve this problem, first, we should find out the specific contend or the scope of patient privacy rights, for it is beneficial for the judicial authority to determine what behavior belongs to the violation of patient privacy. Then, we should find out the components of the infringement of the patients, the infringement behaviour, the damage results and the relationship between the infringement behaviour and the damage facts. Finally, considering the basic reality of China, from the angle of legal, the administrative institutional and medical institutions, we should set some effective rules and regulations to solve it.