ELECTRONIZATION IN HEALTH CARE AND PRIVACY PROTECTION
ELECTRONIZATION IN HEALTH CARE AND PRIVACY PROTECTION

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the issue arising when delivering healthcare in the moderninformation society. Throughout the past decade, the Internet has seen a significantrise of the "Web 2.0" trend, which carried on its wings a health industry trend oftenreferred to as "Health 2.0" or "Medicine 2.0". More recently, we have also witnessedcrowning of concepts such as Health Social Media, eHealth and mHealth. WHO as wellas the national states develop strategies implementing new technologies for personaland medical data sharing, including the prescription of medicals, as well as theirvalidation through the Internet and web sites. Many national and supranationalmedical registries have been brought out. The paper highlights the advantages of theopenness and collaborative nature of modern technologies for exchange of medicalinformation. The paper also points out that general benefits come along with multiplerisk for the privacy of patients as well as medical professionals. The paper also warnsthat there are many people who do not either have access to modern technologies orthey avoid using them or they are just afraid of them. These patients will not have equalaccess to medical care. There are many professionals, especially general practitionersof the older generation, who has already closed or will close their practice due to thefear of an unaccustomed and dehumanized means of communication and so even invery developed countries the inhabitants out of big cities could be excluded from adaily medical care.

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