DutchNews.nl reports:
Patients are to get the right to decide who should have access to their confidential medical details when they are stored in a central data bank, health minister Edith Schippers is set to announce on Thursday.
The minister also wants patients to be automatically sent an email or mobile phone text message if someone does look in their files.
‘Patient safety and preventing medical mistakes is paramount. But I also recognise the privacy issues and support adequate security of information,’ the minister said in a statement.
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Wow. If that goes through, that would be a great privacy protection. Interestingly, the story indicates that 5.8 million people have their records stored centrally as part of the initiative that began in 2008. Significantly, several hundred thousand have reportedly opted out of the system, largely due to concerns about privacy.