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Book SynopsisThis seminal book delivers an international examination of the duty of medical confidentiality and a patientâs right to privacy in the face of contemporary threats such as cyber-security, patient autonomy, and the greater reliance on telemedicine post Covid-19 pandemic.
Trade Review‘In an era where our health data is increasingly collected, shared, and exploited by a variety of actors—including, at times, without our knowledge or consent—Vansweevelt and Glover-Thomas offer a timely international comparative overview of how privacy and medical confidentiality are protected and promoted in healthcare, and how to attain an effective balance of interests between patients and medical professionals, and wider public interests. This is a must-read for all health privacy law scholars.’ -- Edward S. Dove, University of Edinburgh, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword viii 1 Introduction: privacy and medical confidentiality in healthcare 1 Thierry Vansweevelt and Nicola Glover-Thomas 2 Privacy and health in Belgium 5 Thierry Vansweevelt, Nils Broeckx and Filip Dewallens 3 Privacy and health in Canada 24 Emily Baron and Trudo Lemmens 4 Privacy and health in Germany 55 Benedikt Buchner 5 Japanese law of privacy and health 72 Eiji Maruyama 6 Privacy and health in the Nordic countries 91 Mette Hartlev 7 Data protection, privacy, and confidentiality in Qatar’s health system 114 Barry Solaiman 8 Privacy, medical confidentiality, and health in Tanzania 140 Ferdinand Marcel Temba 9 Patient confidentiality rules in South Africa: a legal and ethical perspective 164 Sylvester C. Chima 10 Patient privacy and health information confidentiality in the United States of America 241 Stacey A. Tovino 11 The obligation of medical confidence in the UK 271 Nicola Glover-Thomas 12 Comparative conclusions: towards a global vision of privacy and medical confidentiality? 293 Thierry Vansweevelt and Nicola Glover-Thomas Index 304
