Medical records and privacy: empirical effects of legislation.(A Memorial to Alice Hersh)

Health Services Research | April 1, 1999| | Copyright

Growing public concern about privacy in the computer era is engendering legislative proposals to strengthen existing confidentiality protections for patient medical records. In this policy environment, questions arise about how to balance societal values respecting individual privacy - essential to ensure patient trust in the care process - while at the same time allowing access to information that is essential for scientific research to improve health and health care (Congressional Research Service [CRS] 1998). There is little empirical evidence to inform these policy ...

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