title: Health information, the fair information principles and ethics.
abstract: If advanced electronic patient records are construed as epistemic patient analogues in information space, then the traditional property-model of patient records is longer appropriate. A new paradigm is required. This paper suggests a new paradigm, examines its ethical implications and explores ways in which these could be reflected in legal and regulatory mechanisms. Special attention is paid to privacy, security and access relative to the so-called "fair information principles".
authors.affiliation: University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Kluge
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D030881:Disclosure; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004989:Ethics; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007254:Information Science; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D026706:Paternalism; D033283:Patient Access to Records; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D028701:Patient Rights; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012941:Social Responsibility