Confidentiality of Employee Health Records

Availability versus Confidentiality of Electronic Health Records

Digitization of healthcare data is an ongoing process that will eventually lead to large nationwide information systems where sensitive medical data is stored. An important issue in this process is the protection of patients’ privacy. Applying security measures so that a desired level of privacy protection can be attained has proven to be an interesting and difficult problem when considering th...

Confidentiality, electronic health records, and the clinician.

The advent of electronic health records (EHRs) to improve access and enable research in the everyday clinical world has simultaneously made medical information much more vulnerable to illicit, non-beneficent uses. This wealth of identified, aggregated data has and will attract attacks by domestic governments for surveillance and protection, foreign governments for espionage and sabotage, organi...

Health records privacy and confidentiality: pending questions.

Strengthening Privacy and Confidentiality Protection for Electronic Health Records

Inappropriate disclosure and use of personal health information could have severe adverse consequences for the individual to whom it pertains, but non-disclosure could adversely affect other individuals or the society. In Australia efforts are under way to develop legislation that will address the protection of confidential health information. Development of large-scale health information repos...

The Confidentiality of Medical Quality Assurance Records