Gerard Freriks wrote:
>
> If (medical) Information is held by a person in a readily readable format
> all kinds of organisations, institutions and persons will want to have
> access.
Excellent point. Its not just the risk to confidentiality posed by the
technical aspects of databases, but the effect on the quality of the
patient's "consent" to remove confidentiality. I think you've almost
changed my mind on this issue. One way to go would be to make it
unlawful to request sight of a person's medical records save for
specific listed purposes, eg treatment, but you still come up against
the problem that, at the end of the day, you cannot deny the patient
"volunteering" the records for a non-listed purpose. When the purpose is
to obtain employment or whatever, how to do you assess what is really
voluntary?
Graham Ross
Ross & Co, Solicitors,Liverpool UK
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