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Chapter 10 - Confidentiality and Privacy

Traditional Concerns and Digital Challenges

from Section 2 - Consultation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2022

By
Kenneth W. Goodman
Edited by
D. Micah Hester  and
Toby L. Schonfeld
D. Micah Hester
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine
Toby L. Schonfeld
Affiliation:
National Center for Ethics in Health Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs
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Summary

Medicine has had a long-standing tradition requiring that clinicians keep the private concerns of patients in confidence. However, the traditional duties to safeguard health information and respect for privacy rights face new, interesting, and difficult challenges. The scope of health information technology and its ability to store and analyze vast amounts of information have, as is often the case in bioethics, outstripped efforts to keep up both ethically and legally.

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Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees , pp. 85 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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