Balancing between two goods: Health insurance portability and accountability act and ethical compliancy considerations for privacy-sensitive materials in health sciences archival and historical special collections

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-22

  Wiener, Judith A ^a   Gilliland, Anne T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; LIBRARY; LIBRARY SCIENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIVACY; UNITED STATES;

GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; LIBRARY COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT; PRIVACY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551556442     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.1.005     Document Type: Article

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