An Electronic Health Record for Scotland: Legal Problems Regarding Access and Maintenance
Authors
Renate Gertz
AHRC Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, School of Law and Centre for International Public Health Policy, University of Edinburgh
This paper examines the problems of confidentiality and liability in the new Scottish an Electronic Health Record (EHR) from two perspectives, firstly, a question of creation and control over the EHR, and second, a problem of access to the EHR.