Privacy and Medical Confidentiality in Healthcare - 9781035309429

Privacy and Medical Confidentiality in HealthcareA Comparative Analysis\nAuthor(s): Thierry Vansweevelt, Nicola Glover-Thomas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781035309429, 978-1035309429\nSynopsis\nThis seminal book delivers an international examination of the duty of medical confidentiality and a patients right to privacy in the face of contemporary developments such as cyber-security, patient autonomy, and the greater reliance on telemedicine post the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThierry Vansweevelt and Nicola Glover-Thomas bring together esteemed academics from across the globe to deliver an international perspective on medical confidentiality. Uniquely combining the concerns of patient privacy and data protection law, chapters are separated by global regions and outline a number of theoretical arguments supported by case-specific studies. Contributors assess which healthcare providers are bound by.