Personal Health Records (PHRs) have the potential to give patients fine-grained,
personalized and secure access to their own medical data and to enable self-management …

Background: Use of patients' medical data for secondary purposes such as health research,
audit, and service planning is well established in the UK. However, the governance …

Ethical aspects include perspectives of subject protection and conducting research based
on ethical standards. This chapter aims to highlight the ethical aspects of qualitative …

Background: Electronic health records are widely acknowledged to provide an important
opportunity to anonymize patient-level health care data and collate across populations to …

Objective Our scoping review aims to assess what legal, ethical, and socio-technical factors
contribute to or inhibit the success of national eHealth system implementations. In addition …

Background The increasing integration of digital health tools into care may result in a greater
flow of personal health information (PHI) between patients and providers. Although privacy …

The rise of distributed ledger technology, initiated and exemplified by the Bitcoin blockchain,
is having an increasing impact on information technology environments in which there is an …

Background Robust technology infrastructure is needed to enable learning health care
systems to improve quality, access, and cost. Such infrastructure relies on the trust and …

Health data are used for still more purposes, and policies are enacted to facilitate data reuse
within the European Union. This literature synthesis explores attitudes among people living …

This paper examines the role of privacy in the health context by investigating the influence of
privacy concerns and perceived benefits on individuals' acceptance of health technologies …