more re: Icelandic database

[Peter Marshall <techdiff@ix.netcom.com>]

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BMJ 1999;318:1354 ( 15 May )

Letters

Opposition to the Icelandic
database is based on false
information

EDITOR[---]Duncan states that
the legislation on the health
database passed by Iceland's
parliament last December would
allow a private company to link
its medical records with
genealogical and genetic data.1

This statement is false.
Personally identifiable data cannot be linked to encrypted medical data in
the central database. The legislation simply forbids such use and it is made
impossible through ecryption.

Gisli Ragnarsson, Assistant principal.
Fjölbrautaskólinn í Gar[partial ]abć, 210 Gar[partial ]abć, Iceland
gislira@fg.is

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1.  Duncan N. World Medical Association opposes Icelandic gene database.
    BMJ 1999; 318: 1096[Full Text]. (24 April.)

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Electronic responses to this
article:


THE WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S
OPPOSITION TO THE ICELANDIC
HEALTH SECTOR DATABASE IS BASED
ON CORRE
     Tómas Helgason, Emeritus
     professor of psychiatry ,
     University of Iceland
     eBMJ, 16 May 1999
     [Response]

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