scholarly journals New Coronavirus Infection (COVID-19): Analysis of Legal Issues During Pandemic Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
V. V. Masljakov ◽  
N. N. Portenko ◽  
M. E. Rubanova ◽  
O. N. Pavlova ◽  
A. V. Poljakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Measurement ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Transfer Of Information

The article presents an analysis of the main legal acts adopted during the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. Issues related to the legality of temperature measurement, collection of medical information, its transmission for statistics are addressed and stored in accordance with the goals of collection. It is especially emphasized that in cases of collection and transfer of information, all personal information that would help in identity identification should be deleted, since medical secrecy also operates during the pandemic. In addition, questions were raised about the forced hospitalization of patients with a registered diagnosis or suspicion of a new coronavirus infection caused by COVID-19. Quarantine or observation is one of the possible methods of sanitary protection associated with a set of restrictive measures provided for by law. The restriction of certain rights in this case will be legal. The violation of rights can be said when the goals and measures of influence are disproportionate.

Informational, Physical, and Psychological Privacy as Determinants of Patient Behaviour in Health Care

2015 ◽  
pp. 686-705
Author(s):  
Natalia Serenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Treatment Compliance ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Informational Privacy ◽  
Patient Behaviour ◽  
Positive Word Of Mouth

This chapter presents and describes a theoretical framework explicating how three dimensions of privacy in healthcare (i.e. informational, physical, and psychological) influence patient behaviour through trust. Informational privacy is defined as the patients' perceptions of the degree of control over their personal information when their doctor collects, uses, disseminates, and stores their information. Physical privacy refers to the patients' perceptions of the degree of their physical inaccessibility to others. Psychological privacy is the patients' perceptions of the extent to which the physician allows them to participate in their healthcare decisions and maintains their personal and cultural values, such as inner thoughts, feelings, cultural beliefs, and religious practices. These types of privacy are especially important with respect to service quality and patient safety due to the recent advancements in information and telecommunication technologies and the availability of online medical information. As a result, patients have become more educated in various health issues, and many of them want to actively participate in their health decisions. The framework proposes that these privacy dimensions affect trust in a healthcare provider. Trust, in turn, has an effect on treatment compliance, positive word-of-mouth, and commitment to stay with the current service provider in the future. Based on the framework, recommendations for healthcare stakeholders are provided.

The Regulation of Genetic Testing and the Protection of Genetic and Medical Information in Singapore

2011 ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Terry Kaan
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Genetic Exceptionalism ◽  
The Impact

In the decades since its independence in 1965, the transformation of Singapore’s economy and its transition to a relatively developed economy has also in like manner transformed its health care system, and of the demands made of it. The emergence and availability of new medical technologies has put into sharp focus many novel legal, ethical as well as social issues. This chapter looks at how Singapore has attempted to respond to issues thrown up by genetic testing and screening technologies. A particular focus of this chapter will be the tension between privacy concerns, and the imperatives of access for biomedical research, given that biomedical research has been championed by the Singapore government as one of the future leading sectors of the economy of Singapore. This chapter also examines Singapore’s approach to the question of “genetic exceptionalism:” Does genetic information possess special qualities or attributes that remove it from the realm of ordinary personal information, and which thereby demands special treatment and protection? In this context, the impact of the doctrine of genetic exceptionalism on industry (in this case the insurance industry) is examined.

Defining Elements and Emerging Legal Issues of eu “Sanctions”

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Leonardo Borlini ◽  
Stefano Silingardi
Keyword(s):  
Legal Issues ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Grand Chamber ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Ukraine Crisis ◽  
The Eu

With some 40 different types of restrictive measures in force, the European Union is undisputedly one of the major protagonists of today’s sanction regimes. Measures such as selective trade embargos, asset freezes and travel bans have been adopted by the EU not only to implement Security Council mandated sanctions, but also in addition to (as with Iran and North Korea) or in the absence of UN action (as with Syria and Russia). Further, EU recent practice evidences that sanctions (Myanmar and Zimbabwe) have served the EU and its member states’ own interests also with the view to promoting (the European construction of) values generally shared in international society. After outlining the legal discipline and the policy framework of EU restrictive measures, the present article analyses the legal issues emerging with respect to EU sanctions over the last four years. Among these, the 2017 ruling of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU in Rosneft, Brexit and its consequences on the implementation/adoption of sanctions by the United Kingdom, and recent developments concerning the legal position of candidate countries which refused to align with the EU sanction adopted in reaction to the Ukraine crisis, are the most important.

scholarly journals The Use of Medical Records in Research: What Do Patients Want?

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Kass ◽  
Marvin R. Natowicz ◽  
Sara Chandros Hull ◽  
Ruth R. Faden ◽  
Laura Plantinga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Growing Body

In the past ten years, there has been growing interest in and concern about protecting the privacy of personal medical information. Insofar as medical records increasingly are stored electronically, and electronic information can be shared easily and widely, there have been legislative efforts as well as scholarly analyses calling for greater privacy protections to ensure that patients can feel safe disclosing personal information to their health-care providers. At the same time, the volume of biomedical research conducted in this country continues to grow. The budget of the National Institutes of Health, for example, was $20,298 million in 2001, having more than doubled from a budget of $9,218 million 10 years before. This growing body of research includes increased efforts to use stored medical records as a source of data for health services, epidemiologic, and clinical studies.

scholarly journals Use of Clinical Indicators in the Municipal Hospitals in Japan: An Analysis Based on a Nationwide Questionnaire Survey concerning Medical Information Management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasutoshi Moteki ◽  
Kiyomi Hashimoto
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Clinical Indicators ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Local Municipalities

We conducted a questionnaire survey of public hospitals across the country of Japan in order to analyze the issues and challenges concerning personal data protection faced by medical institutions managed by local municipalities in Japan. The reason for targeting public hospitals is that they are more closely related to the regional medical care plan. Questionnaires were sent to all municipal hospitals (887 hospitals with 20 or more beds that are members of the Japan Municipal Hospital Association: JMHA). Key parts of the findings were published as research material in another journal in 2018. This paper summarizes and analyzes the unpublished portion of the 2017 questionnaire survey by the authors. The analysis of the results focuses on the characteristics of the municipal hospitals surveyed and the use of clinical indicators compared by the size of hospitals. While many small and medium-sized hospitals use a common form of consent for the use of personal information, and many large hospitals have specific consent forms for each department (26.4%). Concerning primal method for disposing or deleting personal information, the most chosen item among small and medium-sized hospitals was the incineration or dissolution method (62.5%); the percentage of contractors outsourcing was relatively high in large hospitals (39.5%). In addition, we found the differences between large and small/medium hospitals concerning the use of the clinical indicators. The most used indicator is average length of hospitalization and the rate of hospital bed utilization (80.4%).

scholarly journals Development of a simulation model for the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection in Kaluga region

2021 ◽  
Vol 270 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Alexey Tkachenko ◽  
Denis Lavrentev ◽  
Maksim Denisenko ◽  
Valentina Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Infection Model ◽  
Simulation Tool ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Rate Of Development ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Java Programming ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Kaluga Region ◽  
Restrictive Measures

The development of the situation around Covid-19 is an urgent problem for the whole world, and it is still not known exactly how the pandemic will develop. However, based on the data of the virus spread to date, it is possible to model the approximate outcome of the activities of humanity in the fight against Covid-19. To develop this model, we used a simulation tool-AnyLogic (Personal Learning Edition) with support for the Java programming language. This software has a large analytical functionality. When creating the Covid-19 infection model, the free version of the program was used. This model is only relevant if the pandemic continues at the same pace. There are many factors that can deviate from the presented model in any direction: early release from restrictive measures, virus mutations, forced vaccination of the population, and other measures that directly affect the main indicators of infection development. In the process of modelling the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus infection in the Kaluga region, results were obtained that reflect the rate of development of the pandemic. Thus, it is possible to identify the weaknesses of the fight against viruses and further minimize the rate of development of the disease.

scholarly journals Accessing Web-Based Health Related Information by College Students

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nsele Mengi Nsuangani ◽  
Miguel A. Pérez
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
The Web

This study explored college students’ online activities at health Web sites, their perceptions of the quality and accuracy of Internet medical information, and their concerns about Internet privacy and security. The research took place at a medium sized university in central California during the Fall 2002 semester with a sample of 136 students. The study found that 67% of the sampled students had sought health information on the Internet; 12% had used Internet medical consultations services; 7% had bought pharmaceutical products online; 2% had joined Internet health support groups; 7% had used e-mail to communicate with healthcare providers; 18% had sought second opinions online; 35% expressed serious concern about the accuracy of health information posted on the Web; and 53% were concerned about the privacy and security of personal information posted on the Web. Gender and age were identified as influential in some of the issues raised in the research.

scholarly journals Protection of Personal Information in the Medical Sphere of Social Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (Especial) ◽  
pp. 44-62
Author(s):  
Mykola O. Yankovyi ◽  
Hanna V. Foros ◽  
Hanna V. Zaiets ◽  
Olena I. Pluzhnik
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Material Sources ◽  
European Court ◽  
Ordinary Person

The purpose of the work was to identify the main legal parameters of modern information. As material sources of research at work, not only the Ukrainian regulations in the field of medical relations information are used, but also relevant innovations in the legal regulation of medical information relations, which are produced in the countries of the European Union. It is established that in the normative legal acts of Ukraine, unlike in European legislation, there is no division of information about an individual into general data and vulnerable personal data. The laws of Ukraine do not contain the notion of "public figure", whose limits of criticism, according to the European Court of Human Rights, are broader for an ordinary person. Among the main conclusions, it stands out that, in order to guarantee the freedoms and rights of citizens, it is necessary in the regulations to classify groups, lists of personal data and access to them based on the secret classification to avoid ambiguities. The materials in the article have practical value for graduates of higher education institutions of police and medical specialties, among others.

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