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. 1999:1155.

Patient-Defined Access to a Web-Based Health Information Repository

Roy Schoenberg, Daniel Z Sands, Charles Safran
PMCID: PMC2232673

Abstract

Posting personal clinical information on the web may violate patient confidentiality. Most patients, would benefit from allowing access to vital data at the point of care. This poses the combined problem of identifying the patient, identifying the requestor of information and implementing granular security measures that will allow access only to the “need-to-know” data. We suggest an architecture that uses patient data to establish both unique identification and granular data access authorization.

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