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These policies and procedures accomplish two objectives. The most important objective is the protection of patient confidentiality. A secondary objective is to establish the hospital's reputation as an institution that cares about its patients and a place where celebrity patients can feel their confidentiality is secure. Failure to meet these objectives may expose the hospital to liability for breach of its patients' confidentiality and will certainly erode the hospital's reputation in its community.
这些政策和程序实现了两个目标。最重要的目标是保护患者的隐私。次要目标是树立医院作为一个关心患者的机构的声誉，以及让名人患者感到他们的隐私能得到保障的场所。未能实现这些目标可能会使医院面临因违反患者隐私而承担责任的风险，并且肯定会损害医院在其社区中的声誉。
