Privacy Advisors for Personal Information Management
Rhonda Chaytor, Edward K. Brown, Todd Wareham · 2006
A Personal Health Record is a beneficial tool, especially for managing personal health information. As the value of personal health information differs from patient to patient, patient confidentiality cannot be guaranteed in such a tool. This paper demonstrates how patients could unintentionally violate the privacy of others, just by disclosing their own personal information. Legal, ethical, and social aspects of the disclosure of personal health information is discussed and a new patient privacy tool proposed.