Commentary: Quality, Costs, Privacy and Electronic Medical Data
Open Access
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
- Vol. 25 (2-3), 111-112
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1997.tb01886.x
Abstract
While agreeing that proper confidentiality measures are necessary when handling patient records, author discusses finding a balance between privacy and the benefits of using patient data to improve quality and to control costs.Keywords
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