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Medical Privacy and the Internet

Medical Privacy and the Internet
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Author(s): D. John Doyle (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 13
Source title: Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Athina A. Lazakidou (University of Peloponnese, Greece)and Konstantinos M. Siassiakos (University of Piraeus, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch002

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Abstract

E-health technology has started to become commonplace in the clinical world, with practitioners setting up their own Web sites to disseminate educational information to patients, with physicians and nurses working as team members to access clinical information about a patient using an electronic patient chart, and with patients even conducting their own research to make informed decisions about clinical options.However, these potential benefits must be tempered from the perspective of medical privacy. Ever since the Hippocratic Oath of antiquity, protecting the privacy of patients has been an important precept of medical ethics. With technological developments, however, health information has come into use by many organizations and individuals that may be unsensitized to medical privacy concerns. This report is concerned with these issues.

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