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July 15, 1997Annals of Internal Medicine

Maintaining the Confidentiality of Medical Records Shared over the Internet and the World Wide Web

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DRDavid M. RindInstitute for Clinical and Economic Review

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Implication

System proposal outlines secure web transmission for emergency departments, highlighting electronic authentication and permission tracking.

Key Points

  • To establish an explicit protocol for maintaining patient confidentiality while transmitting electronic medical records over the web to emergency clinicians.
  • Developed a web-based architecture to electronically authenticate patient and clinician identities.
  • Designed protocol workflows to verify digital release permissions and audit all transmitted health records.
  • Tested system functionality exclusively using scrubbed, de-identified health data pending security validation.
  • Established an operational model balancing urgent clinical data access in emergency settings with strict privacy controls.
  • Instituted a consensus-driven validation process to evaluate confidentiality safeguards before deploying identifiable records.

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David M. Rind (1997) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d03442f2f9d79738b19f3https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-127-2-199707150-00008
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