816 JAMC• 2 MARS 2004; 170 (5) guidelines specifically prohibit the release of identifying
numbers, the Nova Scotia regulatory authority's guidelines prohibit birth date, and the …

Under a variety of circumstances, courts of law have attempted to compel pharmacists to
publicly disclose confidential information contained within the pharmacists' prescription drug …

Does pharmaceutical marketing data expose patient records? In 2003, just after the
promulgation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, a major American pharmaceutical company …

IF PRIVACY IS NOT AN EXTINCT PHENOMENON, IT CER-tainly is an endangered one.
Entrepreneurs—often us-ing questionable tactics—offer access to private data about …

Because medical records are now more comprehensive than ever before, they increasingly
are being demandedfor uses both inside and outside of the medicial profession. Mr …

In the 1984 song," Somebody's Watching Me," Rockwell and Michael Jackson crooned," I
always feel like somebody's watching me/And I have no privacy."'Many prescription drug …

It seems trite to say privacy is valuable. The Supreme Court of Canada has emphasized, on
numerous occasions, that"[the protection of privacy is a fundamental value in modem …

Objective To provide a brief introduction to the ethical and, to some extent, the legal issues
surrounding patient privacy and confidentiality. Data synthesis The privacy of patient …

It is becoming increasingly clear that the days of paper-based medical records are
numbered. The writing is on the wall or, perhaps more accurately, on the silicon, as …

A 1998 incident in which patients' prescription information was used to advertise a new drug
exemplifies the importance of confidentiality in the era of managed care and computers. The …