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School of Engineering
and Information Sciences
Research
Seminars
(Autumn Term 2009-10)
Abstract
E-health and Privacy
Diane
Whitehouse
The Castlegate Consultancy
Abstract
eHealth is taking
on an ever more important role in terms of the way it can enhance
and support Europe's health systems and services, a responsibility
which is likely to take on even greater importance in the post-2010
time-period. Europe's health decision-makers are likely to want
to take a stronger, collaborative leadership position on eHealth.
They will want to identify those domains which are challenges for
all European countries and that can be supported by eHealth, and
are not just problematic for one, two, or even a minority of Member
States. As these developments occur, a number of basic building
blocks will grow in fundamental importance: examples include interoperability,
identity, security, responsibility, and - increasingly - privacy.
This presentation will focus on issues that relate to health information
and health data and privacy. It will reflect on a number of legal
fields from which the privacy issues that surround eHealth can be
explored: data protection, commerce, liability, and international
sharing and transfer of labour.
Diane Whitehouse
has spent a considerable part of her 30-year career focusing on
the social and organisational aspects of the Information Society.
On eHealth, she was an active member of the ICT for Health Unit
in Directorate-General Information Society and Media of the European
Commission (EC) for almost seven years. She continues to advise
and give guidance to the EC, various authorities of the Member States,
and to research applied areas of eHealth within a UK-based business
partnership.
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