Striking the Right Balance:
Access to Health Information and
Striking the Right
Balance: A Summary of Views: Public
Commentary on the proposed
Alberta Health Information Act.
The Alberta
Medical Association Response to "Striking the Right
Balance - A Discussion Paper"
Prepared by Alberta Health -- December 5, 1996. Introductory comments.
Health Information
Management at B.C.'s Ministry of Health.
Health
Information and Privacy: a Comprehensive Statute for
Ontario. Notes for remarks
by Tom Wright, Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario to the Canadian
Institute of Law and Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, June 24, 1996.
Consultation Paper
on Protection of Personal Health
Health
Information Privacy Code 1994 (amended to 12 February
Health
Information Privacy Code Fact Sheets - New Zealand
Health Information
Privacy and Confidentiality. Author: Roderick
L. B. Neame, MA, PhD, MB,
BChir. New Zealand Health Information Services. Published 1993; revised
December 1995.
Health Information Strategy
for the Year 2000; New Zealand.
Genetic Testing
and Privacy: Extract from a study of the science
and uses of genetic testing,
genetic techniques such as gene probes and genetic markers, privacy principles
and genetic testing in the private sector as well as in other countries.
(1992)
How Safe
Are Computerized Patient Records? Family Practice
Management / May 1997, Lead
Article by David Kibbe, MD, MBA, and Mark R. Bard, MHA, MBA. This primer
on security and confidentiality will help answer that question for users
and prospective users.
Privacy and
Health Information Systems: A Guide to Protecting
Health
Information Systems and Privacy: Center for Democracy
and Technology. Discussion
Paper. For more information contact Deirdre Mulligan or Janlori Goldman.
Privacy and Health
Research: A Report to the U.S. Secretary of
Health
and Human Services. May 1997. Office of the Assistant Secretary for
planning and evaluation. By William W. Lowrance, Ph.D.. Consultant in Health
Policy, Geneva Switzerland
Privacy
and Security for Medical Information Systems,
Confidentiality
of Electronic Health Data: Methods for Protecting
Testimony on health
information confidentiality by Kathleen A.
Frawley, JD, MS, RRA, Director,
American Health Information Management Association, Washington, D.C., Office.
June 14, 1996. For the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information,
and Technology, Government Reform and Oversight Committee
The Honorable Donna E. Shalala, Assistant Secretary for
Fair Information
Practices for Health Information. Department of
Health and Human Services.
Statement of the General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel. To the
Subcommittee on Information, Justice, Transportation and Agriculture.
Primer on Privacy: For
use by Community Health Management
Information
Systems . Prepared by the Privacy & Technology Project of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
Balancing
Patient Confidentiality and Release of Information by
Employee
Training: Keeping Patient Information Confidential
EPIC Medical Record Privacy
Page - as well as many links on
medical privacy issues,
this page includes text of the Bennet Bill (US) and commentary regarding
the bill.