Personal Medical Information

This book originates from an international workshop on personal information held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK, in June 1996. The workshop was organized under the joint sponsorship of the British Medical Association and the Isaac Newton Institute in the context of a six-month research program in computer security, cryptology, and coding theory. The revised workshop papers appearing in this volume reflect a lively interdisciplinary exchange of views and ideas between doctors, lawyers, privacy activists, and the computer security community. The volume gives a representative snapshot not merely of the state of the art of the medical computer security art in various countries, but of the complex interplay between human, political, and technical aspects.

Information and the NHS (For me or for them?), Simon Jenkins

Chances, Risks and Side Effects of Chip Cards in Medicine: A Technology Assessment Study from Germany, Anja Hartmann, Otto Ulrich

Exceptionalism Redux: How Different is Health Care Informatics?, Reid Cushman

Clinical Record Systems in Oncology. Experiences and Developments on Cancer Registers in Eastern Germany, Bernd Blobel

Organisation of General Practice: Implications for IM&T in the NHS, Mary Hawking

Practical Protection of Confidentiality in Acute Health Care, Ruth Roberts, Joyce Thomas, Michael Rigby, John Williams

Clinical Systems Security - Implementing the BMA Policy and Guidelines, Alan Hassey, Mike Wells

User-Oriented Control of Personal Information Security in Communication Systems, Ulrich Kohl

Information Management as Risk Management, Beverly Woodward

Responsibility Modelling: A New Approach to the Re-alignment and Re-engineering of Health-Care Organisations, Andrew Blyth

Keeping Confidence in Confidentiality: Linking Ethics, Efficacy, and Opportunity in Health Care Computing, Michael Rigby

Electronic Patient Records: Usability vs Security, with Special Reference to Mental Health Records, Ronald Draper

Security and Confidentiality Issues Relating to the Electronic Interchange of Clinical Data, Peter Landrock, John Williams

Privacy Oriented Clearing for the German Health-Care System, Gerrit Bleumer, Matthias Schunter

Personal Health Data on Optical Memory Cards in Isehara City Yoshikazu Okada, Yasuo Haruki, Youich Ogushi, Masanobu Horie

The Perspective of Medical Ethics, Fleur Fisher

Legal Requirements for Computer Security: An American Perspective, David Banisar

U.S. Health Information Privacy Policy: Theory and Practice, Agneta Breitenstein

Managing Health Data Privacy and Security: A Case Study from New Zealand, Roderick Neame

An Update on the BMA Security Policy, Ross Anderson

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