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  Healthcare industry is based on fiduciary relation between healthcare providers or Doctor and patients. Patient’s confidentiality and the protection of privacy is the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship. This fiduciary relationship between healthcare providers or Doctor and patients is established through the Indian Medical Council Act of 1952. Section 20(A) of the Act provides the code of ethics for the doctors to follow in their profession.   The concept of Medical confidentiality or privacy provides that every healthcare provider shall maintain all the information of patient safe, received from the patient during the course of the treatment. In healthcare sector privacy includes different aspects like informational privacy, physical privacy, associational privacy, proprietary privacy & decisional privacy. Therefore in right to privacy or confidentiality of individual, personal and medical information is kept confidential between him, the doctor, phys...