title: Ethical principles in health data protection.
abstract: Ethics, especially medical ethics, is of a great importance in health data protection, and in medical informatics field ethical principles have great importance in confidentiality, security, and access to patient records. This is not as simple problem as it looks in the first sight, and-in that context-it is significant that many jurisdictions have drafted laws in this regard. As medical informatics has been developed, this ethical problem is becoming very important for medical informatics. Many efforts to make fundamental principles "according to which data protection and access to official information could be reconciled" are made. The principles described in this paper are independent of any process, as they are based on ethical principles. It avoids any kind of conflict or misunderstandings. They can be a base for making of an ethical code for informatics in health care delivery. These principles are independent of any particular "laws", and they can serve as to establish uniformity of standards in medical informatics.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Medical Informatics, Medical Faculty Sarajevo.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masić
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ridanović
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D030881:Disclosure; D033061:Ethics Consultation; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008499:Medical Records; D033283:Patient Access to Records; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D028701:Patient Rights