Your life in their hands

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2957, 2014, pág. 24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Starting in March, the medical records of everyone in England will be transferred from their family doctor to a central database, where the National Health Service and approved researchers can access it. In a leaflet distributed nationwide last month, the NHS assured patients that their records will be anonymised. But privacy researchers say there is a strong possibility that individuals could be identified by their medical history.