Dr. DoGood is a physician on the Gulf Coast trying to establish his practice. Hi
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Dr. DoGood is a physician on the Gulf Coast trying to establish his practice. His idea is to give $3.00 to FEMA housing inspectors for each person’s name and address that they are able to provide him. Then he will prepare a letter to each person, offering his physician services. If that person comes into his office for a service, he will give an additional 5% of the Medicare-billable amount to the FEMA inspector making the referral. What problems do you see with Dr. DoGood's proposal? Be sure to discuss issues of regulation and compliance
Explanation / Answer
Dogood as a physician has planned well for his benefit and has approached FEMA housing inspector to spread his reach to the patients without much effort, however for FEMA inspector who is custodian of public information is not allowed to share any public information with and individual or company for the benefit of self as the same will be breach of confidentiality of customer public information leading to legal action.
The fair information practices endorsed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development , which have been widely cited, include the following principles
Information sharing
There should be limits to the collection of personal data, and any such data should be obtained by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the data subject.
Information specification
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which they are to be used, and to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and kept updated.
Details updation
The purposes for which personal data are collected should be specified not later than at the time of data collection, and the subsequent use limited to the fulfillment of those purposes.
When to share the data
Personal data should not be disclosed, made available, or otherwise used for purposes other than those specified in accordance with [the Purpose Specification] except:
with the consent of the data subject
by the authority of law.
Security
Personal data should be protected by reasonable security safeguards against such risks as loss or unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of data.
Involvement
An individual should have the right to know whether a data controller has data relating to him/her, to obtain a copy of the data within a reasonable time in a form that is intelligible to him/her, to obtain a reason if the request for access is denied, to challenge such a denial, to challenge data relating to him/her, and, if the challenge is successful, to have the data erased, rectified, completed, or amended.
Accountability
A data controller should be accountable for complying with measures, which give effect to the principles stated above.
USA government has chosen above principle while managing public information which helps them to keep driving the purpose for which these details are collected.
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