Threats and Vulnerabilities

In this section we discuss the threats to the security of personal health information that arise from computerisation and in particular from connecting together the many practice and hospital computers on which clinical records are currently stored. Firstly we review the security goals, then we consider what is likely to go wrong, and finally we set out our protection priorities.

• The ethical basis of clinical confidentiality
• Other security requirements for clinical information
• Threats to clinical confidentiality
• Other security threats to clinical information
• Protection priorities
• Examples of aggregation in NHS systems