Health care privacy is part of the bigger picture of a society’s respect for human rights and individual persons. Balancing privacy, security as well as transparency and openness is a cultural and political challenge for any nation. Surveillance is the modern compromise for living in a dangerous world. But how much, who, where and when are choices and decision-points by authorities that affect us all. And consequently, the way we manage the tensions between privacy and legitimate surveillance generally, will impact the way we think about the privacy of medical information.
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog.
