Medical Confidentiality Agreement (MCA)

A Medical Confidentiality Agreement (MCA) is a confidentiality agreement that prevents a healthcare provider from publicly revealing or discussing patient medical records and other medical-related information without informed consent.

• Example(s):
  • Clinical Trial Confidentiality.
  • HIV Confidentiality.
  • Physician-Patient Privilege.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Bank-Client Confidentiality,
  • Clinical Trial Compliance,
  • Commercial Confidentiality.
• See: Hippocratic Oath, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Good Clinical Practice, Information Privacy, National Health Service, National AIDS Trust, Privacy Law.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidentiality#Medical_confidentiality Retrieved:2021-12-4.
  • Confidentiality is commonly applied to conversations between doctors and patients. Legal protections prevent physicians from revealing certain discussions with patients, even under oath in court. This physician-patient privilege only applies to secrets shared between physician and patient during the course of providing medical care.

    The rule dates back to at least the Hippocratic Oath, which reads: Whatever, in connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.

    Traditionally, medical ethics has viewed the duty of confidentiality as a relatively non-negotiable tenet of medical practice.

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