Protection of privacy

Facilitate and contribute to the development of a rational school medicines policy, including guidelines for student, faculty, and staff medicine education, for acquisition, transport, storage, administration, use, and disposal of medicines for protection of privacy and for record-keeping in primary and secondary schools. Initiatives should be undertaken in collaboration with appropriate partners. 

Key to the development of a biomedical informatics architecture is the ethics and privacy issues inherent in any healthcare endeavor. Even though the IT industry sees this as an opportunity not a contraindication, the handling of genotypic and phenotypic data requires a high level of security to protect its highly sensitive and personal nature. Conformity to the statutory requirements for the protection of privacy will require the biomedical informatics field to be developed with the issues of privacy and security in mind. 

It is critical for an institution to conform to the statutory requirements associated with protection of privacy, especially for the profiling data, which may deal with personal information. It is worth repeating that compromised privacy can jeopardize the very survival of an organization while compromised security can cause financial damage for an individual whose information is stored, and the organization. 

Logical security must provision authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity, protection of privacy, nonrepudiation, and availability. Logical IT security services are briefly described below ... 

There are three key requirements for the security services of the new healthcare system in terms of these stakeholders (1) protection of privacy for individual stakeholders to manage their consent, under their direct control, for other stakeholders access to their personal information (2) security that includes identification, authentication, authorization, data confidentiality, data... 

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), Canada... 

Dynamic construction of lifetime personal health record is a function that manages the dynamical assembly of the digital patient record out of relevant personal health information retrieved from many (e.g., laboratory) sources. It is intended to be life long, longitudinal (i.e., all events) and cumulative over time. Access to personal health record by healthcare service providers and service recipients will be controlled for confidentiality and protection of privacy in areas and to levels conditional on the viewers professional role. 

The main themes for development of a sound IT architecture include (1) usability for intuitive and personalized interfaces as natural as possible to human behavior, (2) accessibility through various communication channels and devices, (3) performance for peak volumes, (4) scalability to future growth, (5) availability for access at any time and at any place as per the business needs, (6) reliability, (7) manageability for business continuity with minimal human intervention, (8) flexibility and adaptability to future business and technology changes, (9) adherence to security policies, (10) compliance to the statutory requirements for protection of privacy, and (11) viability for development and deployment in a reasonable time and at a reasonable cost with minimal risks, among others. 

The special capabilities for provision of confidentiality and protection of privacy would need to include controlled access based on roles and identity and limited copy, print, and transfer, with an audit trail of everyone that had... 

The basic idea is to apply the principles of the bank s safety deposit box to an IT solution for safeguarding electronic patient records. For the provision of services for sealed/locked records, the asymmetric cryptography technology, also known as public key cryptography, can be exploited as the base technology for implementation of a system managing the sensitive information in a sealed or locked state, for protection of privacy and for prevention of identity theft in the electronic information age. 

The challenges for data integration for clinical genomics are these the data to be accessed are multidimensional and heterogeneous, the majority of data are unstructured and exist in natural language text, the data contains personal information that is subject to statutory requirements for protection of privacy, the ownerships of data lie with multiple stakeholders in multiple organizations,... 

Compliance to the statutory requirements for protection of privacy as the data can be captured once and stay at the source. 

See further On-line services and data protection and the protection of privacy, vol. 1, Annex to Aimual Report 1998 of the Working Party estabhshed by art 29 of Directive 95/46/EC (EC Conunission, 1999). 

OECD OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal... 

In the body scanning process, there is an implicit link between ownership rights and privacy. Data protection legislation, including data privacy laws have been enacted by many countries throughout the world for two main reasons protection of privacy and ensuring of access by the owner to his information stored in a... 

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