Andrew Harvey, Director of Information Governance at Graphnet Health, has published a paper on medical data privacy.
The paper, Medical Privacy: Aligning the Need to Breach Patient Confidentiality with Data Protection in the Public Interest, was published in the Journal of Data Protection & Privacy (Vol. 7.1, Autumn 2024).
This timely paper provides a much-needed framework to guide healthcare professionals on when, how, and why patient confidentiality might be breached in order to protect public health while remaining compliant with data protection laws.
As healthcare becomes increasingly digital, the tension between safeguarding patient privacy and sharing medical data for public health purposes has reached a critical juncture.
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