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: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
English
Published: 2012
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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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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.
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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 Proceeding Paper 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 (Unpublished)
spellingShingle K Law (General)
Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie
Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks
title 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_short Legal Implications in Breaching Patient Confidentiality through Social Networks
title_sort legal implications in breaching patient confidentiality through social networks
topic K Law (General)
url 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