An unusual problem...that i cant find the answer to in the Data Protection Act.
I wish (the hospital i work for wishes) to copy a persons medical records...transfer it into digital form (pdf) burn it to a CD and give it to another agency (health insurance company) .
Im fairly certain it ought to be encrypted (or protected in some way)...but my boss says no...it doesnt ...just do it.
Err...Im the IT manager..and i havent come across this scenario before...anyone point me to something "Official".
To make the situation even more interesting...Im in GERMANY...so i will have to find a similar ruling in the Datenschutzgesetz.
Oh btw our data protection woman does what the boss says :(
Hellllpppp!!! plz
2006-12-11 07:21:32 · 6 answers · asked by asxtc 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I love wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPAA#The_Privacy_Rule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_privacy
2006-12-11 07:26:49 · answer #1 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
information in a optical storage media mutually with, CD ROM is written with the aid of a laser of better intensity which makes small "pits" interior the reflecting floor e.g. Aluminium (that's many times used ). For analyzing tips from the disk a laser of lesser intensity is used while the laser encounters a pit the laser is refracted and while it would not encounters a pit the intensity keeps to be a similar, the meditated laser popping out of the disk floor is gained by employing a lens and converted to binary digits or bits which the pc can understand.
2016-12-30 06:43:49 · answer #2 · answered by melvina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your boss authorises it that absolves you I think? But we send reports on cdrom to people, via signed for mail with the consent of the person the report relates to - we still have to reserve hard copies of the file and the CD has to be read-only and of course data protection regulation may be different in germany ?.
2006-12-11 17:15:02 · answer #3 · answered by skye05 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about European law, but in the US, disks are given to patients, and they don't have any copy protection or encryption. I guess it's not considered any different than moving paper documents around.
2006-12-11 07:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i think as an insurance company... they need the person medical records to be sure that they will not go on risk if they sign the contract with an ill (very ill person).
of course these information should be secured... and i think that the insurance company will use it in secure base...
2006-12-11 07:35:53 · answer #5 · answered by Ali the Dreamer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope you find a way.Good Luck
2006-12-11 07:36:20 · answer #6 · answered by Ollie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋