Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal ServicesAssesses the use of computer and telecommunications technologies in the electronic delivery of governmental services. Photos, charts and tables. |
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access control administrative adverse underwriting decision agency application authentication clinical data CLIPPER Chip codes commissioner compulsory disclosure Computer Network computer security computer systems computerized medical concerns confidentiality correction or amendment court data center data protection data security database disclosed electronic Electronic Data Interchange encryption Federal footnote Government health care information health care provider health record healthcare hospital individual's information practices information privacy informed consent Institute of Medicine institution or insurance institutional review board insurance institution insurance representative insurance transaction insurance-support organization legislation means medical data medical information medical records passwords patient information patient's authorization patient's health personal communication personal identification physician Privacy Act privacy in health procedures professional purposes recorded personal information representative or insurance-support request right to privacy secondary users smart card Social Security number specific standards tion treatment violation zone
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Page 103 - ... under common control with, the person specified. Control. The term "control" (including the terms "controlling," "controlled by" and "under common control with") means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.
Page 78 - There must be a way for an individual to prevent information about him that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without his consent.
Page 8 - ... the right to be anonymous, the right not to be monitored, and the right not to have one's identifying information exploited (Alter 1994). Westin (1967, p. 7) defined privacy as: “the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves, when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.
Page 38 - Secrecy and delicacy, when required by peculiar circumstances, should be strictly observed; and the familiar and confidential intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional visits, should be used with discretion and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor.
Page 103 - consumer reporting agency' means any person which, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties, and which uses any means or facility of interstate commerce for the purpose of preparing or furnishing consumer reports.
Page 38 - What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
Page 39 - If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.
Page 38 - ... intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional visits, should be used with discretion, and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor. The obligation of secrecy extends beyond the period of professional services; — none of the privacies of personal and domestic life, no infirmity of disposition or flaw of character observed during professional attendance should ever be divulged by the physician except when he is imperatively required to do so.
Page 41 - ... system of records" means a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular asE signed to the individual; (6) the term "statistical record...