[Fwd: Managing Patient Confidentiality and Consent in Semantic Web - please join COI call tomorrow for discussion]

Domain-specific, but worth checking re privacy discussions...

Dan

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Subject: 	Managing Patient Confidentiality and Consent in Semantic Web -
please join COI call tomorrow for discussion
Resent-Date: 	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:05:46 +0000
Resent-From: 	public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Date: 	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:05:01 -0400
From: 	helen.chen@agfa.com
To: 	public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org




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Semantic Web technology is making headway to link data and connect
people. However, in healthcare domain, this very success puts a person's
privacy at much greater risks. Previously sufficient de-identification
technique may be rendered inadequate because it is now possible to
re-identify an identity via inference on the web.

Both the Clinical Observation Interoperability group [COI] and
Terminology group [TERM] were confronted with the challenges of patient
consent and privacy while attempting to connect patient data for
secondary uses in a web of data and web of semantics.

The definition and sensitivity towards patient privacy and consent
depend on a wide range of factors including care environment, culture,
region, political and religious believes, and the use of patient data.
The current security model is mainly based on predefined roles and
relies on cryptography technology for managing patient consent and
ensure confidentiality. It is not able to handle the complexity of
patient confidentiality context and its changes. The full stack of
semantic web technology from RDF to Trust layer promises much richer
expressiveness and verification mechanisms, which seem to be the natural
framework to address these challenges.

A separate wiki page is set up to capture the patient privacy and
consent management scenarios. We hope to stimulate the discussion and
explore semantic web solutions for this highly complex problem:


*http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/SecurityPrivacy*


Please join us for the COI tcon to discuss how semantic web technology
can be used to address this challenges and we hope to identify use cases
to demonstrate the technology framework.

COI Tcon tomorrow:

Tues., June 16 , 11:00am -12:00pm US EDT

Phone +1 617 761 6200, conference 4257 (" HCLS ")
IRC irc://irc.w3.org:6665/hcls

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Server: irc.w3.org:6665
Channel: #hcls




Kind Regards,
*
Helen Chen | **Agfa HealthCare*
Senior Researcher | HE/Advanced Clinical Applications Research
T +1 519 746 6210 Ext.3186 | M +1 647 400 1523

Agfa HealthCare Inc., 455 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON N2L 3X2, Canada
http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/

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