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Embedding Privacy into the Design of EHRs to Enable Multiple Functionalities - Win/Win |
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Personal health information comprises some of the most sensitive and intimate details of one’s life, such as those relating to one’s physical or mental health and the health history of one’s family. As such, it requires strong protections to ensure the privacy of the individual to whom it relates. Personal health information must also be accurate, complete, and accessible to healthcare providers in order to deliver necessary health care to individuals. At the same time, health information has long been used for invaluable secondary purposes that go beyond the care and treatment of the individual, for uses that are seen to benefit society as a whole. This includes such varied uses as population health monitoring, quality improvement, health research, and the management of Canada’s publicly-funded healthcare system.
The question of how to maximize both personal privacy and the benefits that may be derived from secondary use becomes more challenging as information technologies like electronic health records (EHRs) become more prevalent in the health sector. |
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personal health information, EHR, electronic health record, embedding privacy, enable multiple functionalities |
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Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Information & Privacy Commissioner,
Ontario, Canada
Richard C. Alvarez, ICD.D
President & CEO,
Canada Health Infoway |
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Mar 02, 2012 |
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