Abstract
The theme of Chap. 8 of how to identify and safeguard patient safety against client inherent risks is complemented here with selected concrete methods and resources. We walk through the four dimensions – medical, personality, cognition, identity/authentication – and analyze methods and resources in use or apparently appropriate for use. Some promising approaches in pulmology, genetics, mental conditions, weak personality, cognition-adapted information, etc. exist next to others where either assessment of risk level or management of an existent risk is not handled responsibly, e.g. follow-up upon spurious gene scans or limitations in probing for adverse attitudes. Finally data privacy and confidentiality principles and how the client is involved for their protection are briefly addressed.
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E.g. a pull down menu with many concrete cancers when the client has entered “cancer”.
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“CDC does not directly or indirectly endorse Family Healthware or services provided by this tool”.
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Searched in September 2013.
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Julian Assange, one of the founders and best known protagonist of the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks, http://wikileaks.org , whose aim it is to provide to the public information that the WikiLeak organizers believe should be known to the public but is kept secret by the holders; source Wikipedia and WikiLeaks.
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Edward Snowden, former CIA and CIA subcontractor employee who revealed privacy breaches routinely committed by the US secret service NSA; source: Wikipedia.
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Wetter, T. (2016). Partial Solutions for Patient Safety. In: Consumer Health Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19590-2_12
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