Legal Frameworks for eHealth : Based on the findings of the Second Global Survey on eHealth.

Given that privacy of the doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of good health care and that theelectronic health record (EHR) is at the heart of good eHealth practice the question arises: Is privacylegislation at the heart of the EHR? The second global survey on eHealth conducted by the Globa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Organization, World Health
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2012.
Colección:Global Observatory for eHealth series.
Temas:
Confidential communications > Physicians.
Medical informatics > Law and legislation.
Medical policy.
Medical records > Access control.
Medicine > Data processing.
Confidential communications.
Electronic Health Records > legislation & jurisprudence
Health Records, Personal
Confidentiality > legislation & jurisprudence
Medical Informatics > legislation & jurisprudence
Confidentiality
Electronic Data Processing > legislation & jurisprudence
Health Policy
Patient Access to Records > legislation & jurisprudence
Confidentiality > ethics
Médecine > Secret professionnel.
Politique sanitaire.
Dossiers médicaux > Accès > Contrôle.
Médecine > Informatique.
Secret professionnel.
MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > Medical Technology.
MEDICAL > Biotechnology.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Lasers in Medicine.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Biomedical.
Confidential communications
Confidential communications > Physicians
Medical informatics > Law and legislation
Medical policy
Medical records > Access control
Medicine > Data processing
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Is privacy a culturally dependant concept?; 1.2 Is respect for privacy important in the uptake of eHealth?; 1.3 Privacy or confidentiality of EHRs
  • a note on terminology; 2. The ethical and legal aspects of privacy in health care: a literature review; 2.1 Privacy of health related information as an ethical concept; 2.2 The protection of privacy of health related information through law; 2.3 Binding international law on privacy of health related information; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • The European Convention on Human RightsEuropean Union Directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data; 2.4 International non-binding agreements; Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data; Council of Europe Recommendation No. R (97) 5 on the protection of medical data; WHO: A Declaration on the Promotion of Patients' Rights in Europe; 2.5 National law on privacy of health related information; Use of EHRs in Brazil; Legislative responses to EHRs in the USA.
  • 3. Analysis of survey results3.1. General privacy legislation; Results; Discussion; 3.2 EHR privacy legislation; Results; Discussion; 3.3 Legislation to regulate the sharing of health related data for patient care; Results; Discussion; 3.4 Legislation on patient access and the control of EHRs; Results; Discussion; 3.5 EHRs for research; Results; Discussion; 4. Conclusions; 4.1 Building trust; 4.2 Making data work: expanding the uses of EHRs; 5. References; 6. Appendix 1. Methodology of the second global survey on eHealth; Purpose; Survey implementation; Survey instrument; Survey development.
  • Data CollectorPreparation to launch the survey; Survey; Limitations; Data processing; Response rate; Response rate by WHO region; Response rate by World Bank income group; References.

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