title: Nation-wide primary healthcare research network: a privacy protection assessment.
abstract: Efficiency and privacy protection are essential when setting up nationwide research networks. This paper investigates the extent to which basic services developed to support the provision of care can be re-used, whilst preserving an acceptable privacy protection level, within a large Belgian primary care research network. The generic sustainable confidentiality management model used to assess the privacy protection level of the selected network architecture is described. A short analysis of the current architecture is provided. Our generic model could also be used in other countries.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Health and Society (IRSS), UCL, Belgium. etienne.declercq@uclouvain.be
authors.forename: Etienne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: De Clercq
authors.forename: Viviane
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Van Casteren
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bossuyt
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moreels
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goderis
authors.forename: Stefaan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bartholomeeusen
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonte
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bangels
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D003219:Confidentiality; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*