Shadow health records meet new data privacy laws

Privacy-Preserving Electronic Health Records

Electronic health records enable the global availability of medical data. This has numerous benefits for the quality of offered services. However, privacy concerns may arise as now both the patient’s medical history as well as the doctor’s activities can be tracked. In this paper, we propose an electronic health record system which allows the patient to control who has access to her health reco...

Privacy Controls for Electronic Health Records Systems

The federal push to have the US healthcare system completely electronic in the next decade raises significiant challenges to Information Technology professionals tasked with the job of implementing these systems and ensuring that they work properly. The obvious technical issues of storage medium representation and optimisation, appropriate security models and systems interoperability will event...

Sharing Data under Genetic Privacy Laws

Clinical medical practice and biomedical research utilize genetic information for specific purposes. Irrespective of the purpose of obtaining genetic material, methodologies for protecting the privacy of patients/donors in both clinical and research settings have not kept pace with rapid genetic advances. When the usage of genetic information is not predicated on the latest laws and policies, t...

Privacy and Access to Electronic Health Records

The special relationship of trust that needs to exist between a patient and his or her physician has been recognized since the origins of the profession, and the need for doctors to keep confidential any information disclosed to them is codified in the Hippocratic Oath. A distinctive feature of the health records which arises from this relationship is the intimate nature of the information that...

Health records privacy and confidentiality: pending questions.