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Personal Medical Information

Security, Engineering, and Ethics

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  • © 1997

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  1. Ross Anderson

    1. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Information and the NHS (For me or for them?)

    • Simon Jenkins
    Pages 1-18

  3. Chances, Risks and Side Effects of Chip Cards in Medicine: A Technology Assessment Study from Germany

    • Anja Hartmann, Otto Ulrich
    Pages 19-26

  4. Exceptionalism Redux: How Different Is Health Care Informatics?

    • Reid Cushman
    Pages 27-37

  5. Clinical Record Systems in Oncology. Experiences and Developments on Cancer Registers in Eastern Germany

    • Bernd Blobel
    Pages 39-56

  6. Organisation of General Practice: Implications for IM&T in the NHS

    • Mary Hawking
    Pages 57-65

  7. Practical Protection of Confidentiality in Acute Health Care

    • Ruth Roberts, Joyce Thomas, Michael Rigby, John Williams
    Pages 67-78

  8. Clinical Systems Security Implementing the BMA Policy and Guidelines

    • Allan Hassey, Mike Wells
    Pages 79-94

  9. User-Oriented Control of Personal Information Security in Communication Systems

    • Ulrich Kohl
    Pages 95-108

  10. Information Management as Risk Management

    • Beverly Woodward
    Pages 109-115

  11. Responsibility Modelling: A New Approach to the Re-Alignment and Re-Engineering of Health-Care Organisations

    • Andrew Blyth
    Pages 117-127

  12. Keeping Confidence in Confidentiality: Linking Ethics, Efficacy, and Opportunity in Health Care Computing — A Case Study

    • Michael Rigby
    Pages 129-150

  13. Electronic Patient Records: Usability vs Security, with Special Reference to Mental Health Records

    • Ronald J. Draper
    Pages 151-163

  14. Security and Confidentiality Issues Relating to the Electronic Data Interchange of Clinical Data

    • Peter Landrock, John Williams
    Pages 165-173

  15. Privacy Oriented Clearing for the German Health-Care System

    • Gerrit Bleumer, Matthias Schunter
    Pages 175-194

  16. Personal Health Data on Optical Memory Cards in Isehara City

    • Yoshikazu Okada, Yasuo Haruki, Youich Ogushi, Masanobu Horie
    Pages 195-198

  17. The Perspective of Medical Ethics

    • Fleur Fisher
    Pages 199-205

  18. Legal Requirements for Computer Security: An American Perspective

    • David A. Banisar
    Pages 207-207

  19. U.S. Health Information Privacy Policy: Theory and Practice

    • Agneta Breitenstein
    Pages 209-224

  20. Managing Health Data Privacy and Security: A Case Study from New Zealand

    • Roderick Neame
    Pages 225-232
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About this book

In the last few years, the protection of computerised medical records, and of other personal health information, has become the subject of both technical research and political dispute in a number of countries. In Britain, the issue arose initially as an argument between the British Me­ dical Association and the Department of Health over whether encryption should be used in a new medical network. In Germany, the focus was the issue to all patients of a smartcard to hold insurance details and facilitate payment; while in the USA, the debate has been whether federal law should preempt state re­ gulation of computerised medical records, and if so, what technical and legal protection should be afforded the patient. Whatever the origin and evolution of this debate in specific countries, it has become clear that policy and technical matters are closely intertwined. What does 'computer security' mean in the medical context? What are we trying to do? What are the threats that we are trying to forestall? What costs might reasonably be incurred? To what extent is the existing technology - largely developed to meet military and banking requirements - of use? And perhaps hardest of all, what is the right balance between technical and legal controls? As the debate spread, it became clear that there was little serious contact between the people who could state the requirements - clinical professionals, medical ethicists and patients - and the people who could explore how to meet

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

    Ross Anderson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Personal Medical Information

  • Book Subtitle: Security, Engineering, and Ethics

  • Editors: Ross Anderson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59023-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-63244-3Published: 09 July 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-59023-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Systems and Data Security, Cryptology, Computers and Society, Health Informatics

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