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This is set out in the General Medical Council’s (GMC) confidentiality guidance. Some local areas have provided mechanisms for patients to state a preference over whether they have a shared record, ...

Confidentiality has long been a cornerstone of professional ethics; in medicine it can be traced all the way back to the Hippocratic Oath. It stems from the recognition that patients (or clients) will ...

As a hospital patient you have certain rights, and it’s more than OK to speak up if they’re violated – it’s a necessity.

Patient information through Atrium Health's online portal may have been leaked to third-party vendors, according to a notice ...

However, in May 2017, the Court of Appeal overturned this decision and acknowledged that in principle clinicians practising genetics may owe a duty to warn a patient’s relatives. Tensions around ...

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A common denominator of those lawsuits is that they should prevent these situations from happening to another patient ... of those settlements contain a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement ...

A groundbreaking research paper by Technical Architect Vijaya Ashwin Jagadeesan brings fresh perspectives to healthcare ...

Patient data must be stored safely and securely to ensure patient confidentiality. But such safeguards to confidentiality must not come at the cost of efficient access to patient data for research use ...

Doctor Tony Pastor said Governor Greg Abbott's executive order had left providers feeling uncomfortable and scared patients.

In this article, we consider the possibility that two systems, Google Health Connect and Google NotebookLM, could ...