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Confidentiality principles for medical records on the World Wide Web
1Center for Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA. rind@enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|June 29, 1999
Abstract:
We have proposed elsewhere a strategy for releasing medical records via the World Wide Web. The philosophical underpinnings of this proposal balanced a need for access with a need for confidentiality of medical information. Other balance points could have been chosen, and methods of stronger and weaker protection of confidentiality are presented here along with the rationale behind the selected strategy.