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Information technology in medical practice: safety and privacy lessons from the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
Anderson Ross J
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb127721.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , personally identifiable information , information technology , internet privacy , health care , information privacy , computer security , business , patient safety , information security , public relations , political science , computer science , law , philosophy , linguistics
The previous UK government's strategy for managing information technology in healthcare caused serious safety and privacy problems, which led to a government review of healthcare computing that advocated some seemingly quite radical changes. Here I offer a personal view of what went wrong, as an engineer with a background in both safety‐critical systems and computer security, and who has been involved in advising the British Medical Association (BMA) on the safety and privacy of clinical information systems.