Israel rules on medical confidentiality

AIDS and medical confidentiality.

In summary, I have argued that the arguments offered or hinted at in favour of doctors' breaking medical confidentiality by passing on information about their patients' HIV state to others, including other doctors, when this is against the patient's considered wishes are generally unconvincing. Although in highly exceptional cases there may be justifications for overriding confidentiality, the ...

A qualitative study of women's views on medical confidentiality.

CONTEXT The need to reinvigorate medical confidentiality protections is recognised as an important objective in building patient trust necessary for successful health outcomes. Little is known about patient understanding and expectations from medical confidentiality. OBJECTIVE To identify and describe patient views of medical confidentiality and to assess provisionally the range of these view...

The Confidentiality of Medical Quality Assurance Records

The medical record: confidentiality, access and disclosure.

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Privacy, confidentiality, and electronic medical records.

The enhanced availability of health information in an electronic format is strategic for industry-wide efforts to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care, yet it brings a concomitant concern of greater risk for loss of privacy among health care participants. The authors review the conflicting goals of accessibility and security for electronic medical records and discuss nontechni...