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Can Health Informatics Improve Patient Care?
This article asks whether informatics can improve patient care through smarter working assisted by information technology (IT). Benefits do not accrue directly from IT, but from changes in working practices facilitated by IT Why Should Doctors...

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How Do We Protect Patient Privacy and Still Benefit From Electronic Patient Records?
As the use of electronic medical records grows, the issue of informed consent to disclosure becomes more and more important. The benefits that come from making patients' records electronic must be be balanced against patient privacy, and patients...

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Patient Privacy in Technologically Facilitated Multi-Agency Care
In the golden age, which probably never existed, your information was safe with your personal physician. Not least because it was recorded on a paper form which was never looked at again. Computers allow us to retrieve and share information much more...

Published by Profacgillies (8,608 pts ) on Jul 2, 2009 to
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Protecting Your Patients' Information Against Deliberate Harm
Although individual patient information may have little commercial value, electronic records are at risk not just from people who want to read them but people who thinks it's fun to see if they can. Here's what to do to manage these risks:...

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The Duty of Care for Patients' Information
In our increasingly technological world, the duty of care extends to looking after patients’ information as well as the patients themselves to protect their privacy. The traditional view of doctor-patient confidentiality is inadequate for a world...

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Why Dentists Need Those Horrible Computers
We need computers because our paper-based systems simply cannot provide adequate information to support the information needs of a large modern dental practice let alone support shared information with the rest of the health community. This article will...

Published by Profacgillies (8,608 pts ) on Jul 2, 2009 to
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Maintaining the Confidentiality of Patient Records
There are both ethical and legal obligations to keep personally identifiable patient information private. The legal framework varies according to your jurisdiction, but the ethical principles are more universal. This article explores the duty of confidentiality...

Published by Profacgillies (8,608 pts ) on Jul 1, 2009 to
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Data Protection Laws for Personal Health Information in the UK and Europe
Personal health data is governed by privacy legislation. The first UK Data Protection Act was established in 1984 to deal with protection of data held on computers. This was replaced by the much more comprehensive 1998 Act which harmonised UK practice...

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Prediction of Cardiovascular Risk Based on the Framingham Heart Study
The Framingham Heart Study is one of the most famous studies of heart diseases in the world. The data from the Framingham heart study has been used to construct risk models to predict the risk of having heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases...

Published by GiangNguyen (2,711 pts ) on Jul 1, 2009 to
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What Information do Dentists Need?
In any situation, the information needed is determined by the tasks that we are required to carry out. Information needs should be determined by organisational or user objectives (and not the other way around!). Here's a look at the information...

Published by Profacgillies (8,608 pts ) on Jun 29, 2009 to
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