Download or read book Information Privacy in the British Columbia Health Care System written by Rabia Chung and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis investigates the challenges to the protection of privacy in the health care field and the regulatory response by the government of British Columbia to legislate information and privacy rights. Recent social, political, economic and technological developments all pose potential threats to privacy. An examination of the privacy literature demonstrates that the subject of privacy has captured the attention of many disciplines. Furthermore, the legal, philosophical, political and socio-cultural literature suggests diverse views exist about the definition and value of privacy. Nevertheless, in Canada and other western countries, privacy is considered an important value in a liberal democratic state. Specifically, "information privacy" where individuals have some control over the dissemination of personal information is a subject which has been gaining salience on the public agenda over the past thirty years. In response to the modem welfare state's expanding data banks of personal information and the proliferation of computerization, several western democracies have enacted data protection policies. A comparative examination of data protection policies highlights different approaches to the protection of privacy in the United States and Canada. The government of British Columbia drew from these experiences and enacted stronger data protection legislation. The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPP) Act gave the Information and Privacy Commissioner regulatory powers to overturn government decisions and to issue binding orders. Privacy of health information is an important data protection issue. Traditionally, the medical relationship was confidential and free from third party interference. A critical survey of theories in the health literature describes the physician-patient relationship and information control. The proliferation of information within society increases the need to control and to limit the use of personal health records. Three trends in the health care field challenge the traditional professional relationship between the physician and the patient. First, the status of the physician changes as more individuals and organizations gain access to patient information. Moreover, consumers of health services demand more information from physicians. Second, the multi-disciplinary approach to health care delivery requires the exchange and sharing of information among health care professionals. Researchers and public health officers require identifiable patient information to conduct studies and to protect public health. Third, government agencies request more information from the health care sector and recipients of social benefits. The information is used to regulate and control the publicly funded health care system. The provision of hospital insurance, medicare and other health care insurance programs entails the collection of large quantities of information. A variety of technologies including the Pharmanet computerized drug information system and card technologies provide administrative data and permit the sharing of health information among government agencies and health care professionals. Some critics and advocates suggest the new technologies reduce privacy further and increase the potential for a "surveillance society." An examination of the policy literature, parliamentary debates and interviews with members of the policy community promoting information rights in British Columbia demonstrates that privacy is important both politically and symbolically. An assessment of the FOIPP Act and interviews with hospitals and self-governing professional bodies suggest patients and organizations have benefited from the legislative changes. The statutory requirements of the Act present some challenges to the financial and organizational resources of hospitals and self-governing professional bodies. A study of the health policy environment and the protection of privacy highlights a number of important trends in Canada. These include: the increasing legislative and judicial protection of privacy rights, the emerging patient rights movement, the regulatory challenge for governments to balance the right to privacy with the need to provide efficient and effective services using information technologies and the influential role of the policy community in the field of data protection."--Pages ii-iii.
Download or read book Privacy and Data Protection in Health and Medical Information written by David H. Flaherty and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information Between Health Care Providers and Policing Agencies Under the B C Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion paper provides guidance for the disclosure of personal information by British Columbia health care providers to the police, and for its collection from health care providers by the police. Guidelines are provided with regard to non-disclosure, discretionary disclosure (by consent, to assist in an investigation, in compelling circumstances, or to notify next of kin), and mandatory disclosure in situations of risk of significant harm to others. Other relevant issues are also discussed: notification of discharge of patients, disclosure of location of a specific patient in order to make an immediate arrest, health care providers as victims of an offence, and record keeping. The final section makes recommendations regarding the need for procedures and protocols, and on developing and communicating policies.
Download or read book Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information Between Health Care Providers and Policing Agencies Under the B C Freedom of Information and Privacy Act written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to and Confidentiality of Health Care Records in British Columbia written by B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Good Privacy Practices written by British Columbia. Information, Science and Technology Agency. Information Management and Corporate Services Branch and published by The Branch. This book was released on 1997 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this guide is to assist public bodies in British Columbia in meeting their privacy responsibilities under Part 3 of the Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy Act. It presents a set of principles on which to base day-to-day decisions about managing personal information in the organization's program area. The principles include limitations on information collection, authority for collection, access and correction, limitations on use and disclosure, and security. Powers of the Information & Privacy Commissioner are also outlined.
Download or read book Health Security for British Columbians written by Richard G. Foulkes and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accessing Health and Health Related Data in Canada written by The Expert Panel on Timely Access to Health and Social Data for Health Research and Health System Innovation and published by Council of CanadianAcademies. This book was released on 2015 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians care deeply about their country’s health-care sector, and look to their governments and health-care providers to ensure that it remains healthy and vibrant. For this to be achievable, however, those who are charged with stewardship of this sector must continuously search for ways to improve it and the health outcomes it generates, including more effective interventions and other ways to improve patient care, better ways to address population health, more efficient models for health-care delivery, and innovative approaches to overall system design. All of these potential areas of improvements are fundamentally dependent on research, and that research is fundamentally dependent on data.
Download or read book Left Untreated written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidance Document written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Security for British Columbians Management of the British Columbia health programme written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Prescription for Legislative Reform written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book E Health Care Information Systems written by Joseph Tan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology. This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples. Topics include e-health records, e-public information systems, e-network and surveys, general and specific applications of e-health such as e-rehabilitation, e-medicine, e-homecare, e-diagnosis support systems, and e-health intelligence. E-Health Care Information Systems also covers strategies in e-health care technology management, e-security issues, and the impacts of e-technologies. In addition, this book reviews new and emerging technologies such as mobile health, virtual reality and nanotechnology, and harnessing the power of e-technologies for real-world applications.
Download or read book Authorization for Indirect Collection of Personal Information written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canadian Health Information Management Lifecycle written by CHIMA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This HIM lifecycle resource will be useful to a wide range of jurisdictions that manage health information. The document will provide a summary of the recommended leading practices and principles related to managing health information throughout its lifecycle, regardless of the type of jurisdiction or information media. -- Publisher's website.
Download or read book Review of the Storage and Disposal of Health Care Records in British Columbia written by Shaun Howard Saville Peck and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Data Privacy Handbook written by Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook covers Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, which enable the storage, management, and sharing of massive amounts of demographic, diagnosis, medication, and genomic information. It presents privacy-preserving methods for medical data, ranging from laboratory test results to doctors’ comments. The reuse of EMR data can greatly benefit medical science and practice, but must be performed in a privacy-preserving way according to data sharing policies and regulations. Written by world-renowned leaders in this field, each chapter offers a survey of a research direction or a solution to problems in established and emerging research areas. The authors explore scenarios and techniques for facilitating the anonymization of different types of medical data, as well as various data mining tasks. Other chapters present methods for emerging data privacy applications and medical text de-identification, including detailed surveys of deployed systems. A part of the book is devoted to legislative and policy issues, reporting on the US and EU privacy legislation and the cost of privacy breaches in the healthcare domain. This reference is intended for professionals, researchers and advanced-level students interested in safeguarding medical data.
