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When information Systems and networks are replacing traditional document procedures, archiving and postal services in the healthcare sector, insecure routines may be avoided by elaborating appropriate procedures and technical protection measures.
These routines need to be supported by the legal system to create public confidence in digital documents with digital signatures and related services. Instead of a completely new legal framework, at the risk of forgetting certain issues or having to invent the wheel again, existing legal principles should be utilised and — when necessary — adapted to new pattems of action. Such a starting point may create a base for legally unified regulations of paper-based and electronic routines, with security maintained. By adapting the definition of document and the well known procedures regarding e.g. archiving and postal services to the electronic environment it will become natural for the solution of various legal questions to be taken from those rules which are already established for paper documents.
This chapter focuses on the legal requirements on electronic document management including the possibility of using them as evidence. It does not go into detail on the equally important but more well-known requirements for confidentiality based on special healthcare legislation and protection of the rights of the data subject as provided for in the “Data Protection Directive” 95/46/EC.
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