On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 12:07, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > I have been working with the CDC with an eye to include in VistA the option > to > report deidentified data to the Biosense project to help with the early > detection of disease such outbreaks, etc. Privacy does not have to be > violated in order to achieve most of what you are concerned about. >
Yeah, actually it does. In order to intervene with specific patient about their diabetes, the individual patient must be contacted. In order to prevent potential sex partners from getting AIDs and dieing, the diseased patients identity, and their current and recent sex partners need to be identified AND contacts. in the later case you have to decide if your for or against murder. Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
