Privacy concerns

Nevertheless, multiple challenges persist. Reimbursement on a fee-for-service or contractual basis between institutions may not be feasible for the community hospital. Government reimbursement for telemedicine services may remain limited by interstate commerce restrictions and local practice requirements, and may depend on studies demonstrating that the costs of consultation are counterbalanced by avoiding unnecessary transfers. Additionally, privacy concerns must be properly addressed with secure, encrypted transfer of information and rules governing who may access the patient s medical information from a distance. 

Regulations and screening of passengers for detection of explosives have been estabhshed [162]. Detection on passengers is more difficult because of possible privacy concerns, difficulty in samphng, and different analytic sensitivity requirements. It remains a constant concern of TSA and the airhne industry. 

The next step in validation was to test known positive specimens that had been archived. This approach was important in validating a variety of disorders. In today s environment, however, these specimens, critical to method validation, have become increasingly more difficult to obtain due to privacy concerns and regulations. For example, it was important to obtain blood spots analyzed previously by other methods and compare results in a blinded fashion in order to validate the newer methodology. A fundamental paper for demonstrating the improvement of PKU detection was carried out using this approach. 

Anomaly portals have two factors that have affected public acceptance of the associated technologies radiation (both ionizing and non-ionizing) exposure and privacy concerns, despite verification of safe levels of radiation and advances in technology... 

Privacy concerns are becoming more important as data mining becomes more common. Besides issues of data ownership, there are questions that abound on who has access to the data, the amount of identifying information that is present in the database and how the results of the data mining will be used. 

Many of the less desirable features of US Managed Healthcare that are at the root of public concerns about privacy may be driven out by IT. Advanced IT privacy mechanisms include good security measures that the patient can control, and so dissipate the privacy concerns. 

A. J. Rohm and G. R. Milne. 2002. Just what the doctor ordered The role of information sensitivity and trust in reducing medical information privacy concern. Journal of Business Research 5757 1-12. 

As early as 1984 the EPA anticipated privacy concerns in allegations that are made during medical examinations. The EPA said that when reporting is... 

Several key adoption issues will be discussed in this section. The mainissuesthat we address in this section are cost associated with the deployment of RFID system, security and privacy concerns, and finally more technical issues in deployment of an RFID system. 

Figure 8. Major privacy concerns with RFID adoption...

The deployment of RFID in day-to-day life can raise several privacy concerns. The major concerns originate because ofthe inherent ability of RFID to track people who are using products that have RFID tags. Privacy experts say that marketers and retailers can gather detailed customer profiles, based on their transactions with that individual (fuels et al., 2003 Kumar, n.d.). The privacy concern originating by the use of RFID can be categorized into five areas as shown in Figure 8. 

Identify the employee involved unless it is a privacy concern case as described below. 

You must consider the following types of injuries or illnesses to be privacy concern cases ... 

You must not enter the employee s name on the OSHA 300 Log for these cases. Instead, enter privacy case in the space normally used for the employee s name. You must keep a separate, confidential list of the case numbers and employee names for the establishment s privacy concern cases so that you can update the cases and provide information to the government if asked to do so. 

If you have a reasonable basis to believe that information describing the privacy concern case may be personally identifiable even though the employee s name has been omitted, you may use discretion in describing the injury or illness on both... 

The rule requires the employer to protect the privacy of the injured or ill employee. The employer must not enter an employee s name on the OSHA 300 Log when recording a privacy concern case. The employer must keep a separate, confidential list of the case numbers and employee names, and provide it to the government on request. If the work-related injury or illness involves an intimate body part or the reproductive system resulted from a sexual assault results in mental illness leads to HIV infection, hepatitis, or tuberculosis results from needlestick and sharps injuries contaminated with another person s blood or other potentially infectious material or other illnesses, not injuries, if the employee independently and voluntarily requests that his or her name not be entered on the OSHA 300 Log, it is considered a privacy concern case. 

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