The Cons Confidentiality and the institution of HIPAA hasn’t been all positive. It has increased paper work for health care professionals (Livestrong, 2015). Although most cases of breach of confidentiality were not intentional, many nurses or health care professionals have lost their jobs due to these breaches. This then causes the hospital to lose money, sometimes due to a law suits. This also causes many professionals to be overly cautious when releasing protected information, such as refusing to send results in the mail or leaving messages on an answering machine (Livestrong, 2015). Nurses also have to be extra cautious when someone calls to ask about a patient, because legally the nurse doesn’t have the right to disclose information
