Patient privacy and confidentiality

Medical confidentiality and patient privacy: the Jewish perspective.

This article presents the approach of Jewish law to the major issue of medical confidentiality and patient privacy. For an extensive discussion of Jewish medical ethics and an in-depth presentation of the Jewish view of 39 major issues in medical ethics, the reader is referred elsewhere [15]. Briefly, the Jewish view toward medical ethical subjects is predicated on the general principle of the ...

Saying privacy, meaning confidentiality.

Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information systems

Professor Vuori's paper, first presented at the fourth Medico-legal Conference in Prague in the spring of this year, deals with the problem of the maintenance of confidentiality in computerized health records. Although more and more information is required, the hardware of the computer systems is so sophisticated that it would be very expensive indeed to 'break in' and stealfrom a modern data b...

Privacy Homomorphisms for Statistical Confidentiality

When publishing contingency tables which contain official statistics, a need to preserve statistical confidentiality arises. Statistical disclosure of individual units must be prevented. There is a wide choice of techniques to achieve this anonymization: cell suppression, cell perturbation, etc. In this paper, we tackle the problem of using anonymized data to compute exact statistics; our appro...

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...