1 Health information is also a valuable resource for surveillance of safety and evaluation of performance of the wider system of care services and for researches to improve treatments, care and outcomes at both the individual patient and the policy levels.
Sharing health and social care data is essential to the delivery of high-quality health care and health care monitoring. And, if the privacy regime was reorganised in a more comprehensive manner, it could be used as a sound implementation model for other countries. Whilst in the UK privacy legal framework remains complex and fragmented into different layers of legislation, which may negatively impact on both the rights to privacy and health, the UK is at the forefront in the uptake of international and EU privacy and data protection principles. In Australia and across North America, different ways are being sought to balance out these twin requirements of a modern society – to preserve privacy alongside affording high-quality health care for an ageing population. In Europe, the enactment of the new EU Data Protection Regulation in 2016 constitutes a major breakthrough, which is likely to have a profound effect on European countries and beyond. It also proposes a consent system based on an ‘opt-out’ model rather than on ‘opt-in’.Īcross Europe as well as internationally, the privacy health data sharing balance is not fixed. The scope of this review is to strengthen data security standards and confidentiality. Accordingly, in 2015, the UK National Data Guardian requested to conduct a further review of data protection, referred to as Caldicott 3. The UK is adopting guidelines, codes of conduct and regulatory instruments aimed to implement privacy principles into practical settings and enhance public trust. Whilst the spread of IT advancements in recent decades has increased the demand for an increased privacy and data protection in many ways, heatlh is a special case. Hence, societies are striving to find a balance between the two competing public interests. However, these societal benefits may be constrained by privacy and data protection principles. Sharing health and social care data is essential to the delivery of high-quality health care as well as disease surveillance and public health and for conducting research.
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