{"title":"Remote Patient Management: Balancing Patient Privacy, Data Security, and Clinical Needs.","authors":"Peter Choi, Rachael Walker","doi":"10.1159/000496312","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Remote monitoring of dialysis offers significant clinical benefits to patients and healthcare providers. However, the collection, transfer, and storage of large amounts of health data involved in remote monitoring require a careful consideration of privacy and data security concerns. Failure to adequately balance clinical utility with privacy has the potential to reduce patients' confidence in remote monitoring and could represent ethical and medicolegal risks for clinicians. We provide 3 case vignettes that illustrate the real-life balance of utility and privacy in patients who received peritoneal dialysis with remote monitoring. We review the principles of health data privacy, confidentiality, and security with respect to remote monitoring as a guide for clinicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":10725,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to nephrology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000496312","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contributions to nephrology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000496312","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2019/4/8 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Remote monitoring of dialysis offers significant clinical benefits to patients and healthcare providers. However, the collection, transfer, and storage of large amounts of health data involved in remote monitoring require a careful consideration of privacy and data security concerns. Failure to adequately balance clinical utility with privacy has the potential to reduce patients' confidence in remote monitoring and could represent ethical and medicolegal risks for clinicians. We provide 3 case vignettes that illustrate the real-life balance of utility and privacy in patients who received peritoneal dialysis with remote monitoring. We review the principles of health data privacy, confidentiality, and security with respect to remote monitoring as a guide for clinicians.
期刊介绍:
The speed of developments in nephrology has been fueled by the promise that new findings may improve the care of patients suffering from renal disease. Participating in these rapid advances, this series has released an exceptional number of volumes that explore problems of immediate importance for clinical nephrology. Focus ranges from discussion of innovative treatment strategies to critical evaluations of investigative methodology. The value of regularly consolidating the newest findings and theories is enhanced through the inclusion of extensive bibliographies which make each volume a reference work deserving careful study.