의료정보의 현황과 입법과제
A Study on the Present State and Appropriate Direction for Legislation about Protection of Personal Medical Information
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초록
Lots of large sized hospitals have already installed medical informations computing system. However, legislator and government have not made any policies and legislations for regulating and protecting privacy about personal medical informations. Of course, there are statues of privacy rule for protection of personal informations. If a term of medical informations is included in a term of personal informations broadly, present privacy rule could regulate use or disclosure of medical informations for privacy protection. But, medical informations are very sensitive informations compared with other personal informations. Therefore, the special privacy rule for regulating about protection of personal medical informations has to make as soon as possible. On this article, I suggest a appropriate direction for legislation about protection of personal medical informations according to analyzing into U.S.A.'s statute for privacy act about personal medical informations - "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act".