Privacy and confidentiality of emergency department patient information: Contemporary considerations and challenges

Jay M Brenner; Michele Y Delpier; Jeremy R Simon; Joel M Geiderman; Catherine A Marco; John C Moskop; American College of Emergency Physicians Ethics Committee

doi:10.1002/emp2.13130

Privacy and confidentiality of emergency department patient information: Contemporary considerations and challenges

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2024 Mar 13;5(2):e13130. doi: 10.1002/emp2.13130. eCollection 2024 Apr.

Authors

Jay M Brenner¹, Michele Y Delpier², Jeremy R Simon³, Joel M Geiderman⁴, Catherine A Marco⁵, John C Moskop⁶; American College of Emergency Physicians Ethics Committee

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine SUNY-Upstate Medical University Syracuse New York USA.
² Dover, DE Bayhealth Emergency Physicians Syracuse New York USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine Columbia University Syracuse New York USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine UCLA-Cedars Sinai Syracuse USA.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine Penn State Health Syracuse USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Winston-Salem Wake Forest University Syracuse USA.

Abstract

This article provides a brief review of moral and legal duties to respect confidentiality in emergency medicine. The article considers current challenges to confidentiality in emergency departments and proposes strategies to address them. It is offered as an update of the two-part review of confidentiality in emergency medicine in 2005 by Moskop et al published in 2005 in Annals of Emergency Medicine.