Medical confidentiality and legal privilege

Informed consent, confidentiality and privilege in psychiatry: legal implications.

There appears to be a need for understanding of certain basic legal concepts whenever informed consent. confidentiality. and privilege are discussed in medicolegal context. Informed consent to treatment is based on an "intelligent understanding" by the patient. To attain to an intelligent understanding. the patiellt·dient must be mentally capable of forming an independent opinion based on his a...

Informed consent, confidentiality and privilege in psychiatry: practical applications.

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 ...

Outsourcing Medical Data Analyses: Can Technology Overcome Legal, Privacy, and Confidentiality Issues?

BACKGROUND Medical data are gold mines for deriving the knowledge that could change the course of a single patient's life or even the health of the entire population. A data analyst needs to have full access to relevant data, but full access may be denied by privacy and confidentiality of medical data legal regulations, especially when the data analyst is not affiliated with the data owner. O...

Grave secrets: legal and ethical analysis of postmortem confidentiality.