Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks

The popularity of social networks has grown rapidly in recent years. There is a widespread use of sites such as Facebook and Twitter amongst medical students and doctors without knowing the potential risks that may arise. Disclosing identifiable information about patients without consent on blogs, m...

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Main Author:	Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	K Law (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/27619/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/27619/1/Social_Network_Confidentiality.pptx http://irep.iium.edu.my/27619/2/Invitation_letter_Prof_Nemie.pdf

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spelling	iium-276192012-12-19T05:06:00Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/27619/ Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie K Law (General) The popularity of social networks has grown rapidly in recent years. There is a widespread use of sites such as Facebook and Twitter amongst medical students and doctors without knowing the potential risks that may arise. Disclosing identifiable information about patients without consent on blogs, medical forums or social networking sites would constitute a breach of legal and ethical duty of confidentiality and could give rise to defamatory actions by the patients. 2012-12-08 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27619/1/Social_Network_Confidentiality.pptx application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27619/2/Invitation_letter_Prof_Nemie.pdf Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie (2012) Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks. In: Social Network Ethics: Medical Privacy and Confidentiality, 8 Dec 2012, Kuantan, Pahang. (Unpublished)
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description	The popularity of social networks has grown rapidly in recent years. There is a widespread use of sites such as Facebook and Twitter amongst medical students and doctors without knowing the potential risks that may arise. Disclosing identifiable information about patients without consent on blogs, medical forums or social networking sites would constitute a breach of legal and ethical duty of confidentiality and could give rise to defamatory actions by the patients.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie
author_facet	Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie
author_sort	Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie
title	Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks
title_short	Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks
title_full	Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks
title_fullStr	Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks
title_full_unstemmed	Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks
title_sort	legal implications in breaching patient confidentiality through social networks
publishDate	2012
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