Obligation of professional; hold that information in confidence; privilege communication; applied to information
Privacy
Right of individual client to be let alone; applied to people
Privacy and confidentiality
Right of all people; benefits both individual and society
Data security
Used to protect the privacy of health information
Liability
Legal precedents directly involving harm
Product liability
Harm caused by defective product
Before clinicians perform most health related intervention, they generally evaluate
Evidence
Standard
Available technology
Presupposition
Values
Standard view
Decision-support tools should be viewed and used as supplementary to human clinical judgement
Potential users of such systems
Physician
Nurses
Paramedical personnel
Patients
Students of health sciences
Two competing values
Free access to information
Protection of patient's privacy and confidentiality
Ethical considerations
Determine what is good and meritorious
Legal principles
Derived from ethical ones
Ethics
Offers conceptual tools
Laws
Tells us how to behave
Tort
Acts of commission that gives rise to injury
Injury
Invasion of any legal right
Harm
Fact that an individual suffers
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 386 (Civil Code of the Philippines): ordain and institute civil code
ACT 2176: general principle of civil liability
Three ideas from tort law
Harm by intention: person injures another using a product
Negligence theory
Strict product liability
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10173 (DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012): protecting individual personal information; individuals health are considered sensitive personal information
JOINT ADMINISTRATIVE 2016-0002: ensure protection of the privacy of patient
REPUBLICACTNO.8293 (Intellectual Property CodeofthePhilippines): prescribing the intellectual property code