title: Protecting the privacy of patient information in clinical networks: regulatory effectiveness analysis.
abstract: Patient privacy is one of the major issues in the development of modern clinical information system networks. Such networks will have to demonstrate an appropriate concern for privacy as a precondition of operation. Regulatory effectiveness analysis is a novel technique for measuring compliance with a technological regulatory system. By examining the public policies, legal structures, and technical tools involved in the regulatory system, it is possible to discover discontinuities that may result in noncompliance with the regulatory system.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, College Park 20742.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Brannigan
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D016494:Computer Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D011640:Public Policy; D014481:United States