¿El expediente clínico debe ser clasificado como confidencial y reservado?

Abstract

Confidentiality and due care of personal data to be successful must comply with all existing legal instruments in Mexico, moreover ethics principals that converges with rights of access and correction of personal data, should be observed because they are all binding to the public field, but specifically to the national health system, those elements mentioned before are intimately related to the most deep defended and valuable human rights along history like, intimacy and private life. This review article emphasize one line of documental and descriptive investigation about the medical record and its classification, and shows a brief outlook of personal data access in Mexican public administration. The purpose here is to show both available options of classification: confidential and reserved, that can apply in specific cases like unsolved matters which are contained in the medical record. At last, but not at least (as a conclusion) is shown a proposal of a model or criteria useful for all the institutions focused in health that are part of the public administration, with highlights in due care of medical records where unsolved matters are contained, that can be identified like prognosis and diagnosis.