Re: Confidentiality Policies

[ajcblyth@glamorgan.ac.uk (Andrew Blyth)]

  >At 06:57 AM 5/8/96 -0400, llorton@shell.portal.com wrote:
  >The purpose of the health care industry is to provide care. The purpose of
  >information technology is to make the care better and more efficient. The
  >purpose of security and confidentiality safeguards are to protect the rights
  >of the individual against unwarrented intrusion. It is impossible to
  >construct a system which maximizes each of these unless those involved
  >understand the issues and the technology and accept that compromises must be
  >made by all sides and that all sides are honorably intent on doing their job
  >well.
  
  I think that these definitions are a bit ideological, you could take
  a capitalistic view point.
  
  I could say that the purpose of the health care industry is to make
  money by providing health-care. The purpose of information technology
  is to help make the providers of the health-care more money.  The
  purpose of security and confidentiality safeguards are to help create
  trade for the health-care providers by convincing people that there
  systems are safe to be used.
  
  The point that I am trying to make is that it is all a matter of
  perspectives.
  
  Regards
  
  Andrew.
  
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