Broadcasters breach confidentiality

The liability of psychotherapists for breach of confidentiality.

Decisions to breach confidentiality when prisoners report violations of institutional rules.

As a general principle, standards of care in prisons, including patient confidentiality, should strive to be the same as those in the open community. This is the position taken by a recent American Psychiatric Association (APA) Task Force on jails and prisons and in an earlier APA position statement. Accordingly, confidentiality can be breached when inmates are at risk of serious harm to themse...

Using Social Networking Sites for Communicable Disease Control: Innovative Contact Tracing or Breach of Confidentiality?

Social media applications such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have attained huge popularity, with more than three billion people and organizations predicted to have a social networking account by 2015. Social media offers a rapid avenue of communication with the public and has potential benefits for communicable disease control and surveillance. However, its application in everyday public hea...

Broadcasters’ requirements for IPTV

IPTV is not a well-defined term and may be a source of ambiguity and sometimes confusion. This article describes the basic building blocks in order to clarify the difference between “IPTV” and what is increasingly being called “WebTV”. A comparison between IPTV and the DVB transmission schemes for satellite and cable is also made, providing some insight into the similarities between these deliv...

Genetic testing and breach of patient confidentiality: law, ethics, and pragmatics.

Medical uses of genetic information have multiplied over the last several years. When an individual is a carrier of a clinically important allele, their kindred are at increased risk of carrying the same allele and of sharing the consequent risk of disease. If there were an intervention that could modify the risk of progression to disease, then there would be a clear advantage to kindred to be ...