The privacy and confidentiality of a patient is very important in health care. a patient has the right to privacy, meaning that a health care worker can't be going around talking about a patient's information. H.I.P.A.A., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a law that provides rights to patients and their families. The privacy law states that health care workers, must only use a patient's information for treatment, and improving the conditions of care. Also, patients have the right to know about their medical data, and how it will be used. With the rights for patients to have privacy and confidentiality, also come the importance of ethics. There are four principles of ethics in the medical field that play a role in providing