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The centralized collection and storage of information about the health of individuals. Recent advances in genetics have raised concerns about the potential for abuse of all health databases, whether maintained for scientific research which has long used them or for government or community health planning, or by groups of professionals (or individuals) to help in the treatment of patients. The public is concerned about whether their rights to privacy and confidentiality are threatened by databases and whether information about them could be disclosed and misused.<\/p>\n

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The centralized collection and storage of information about the health of individuals. Recent advances in genetics have raised concerns about the potential for abuse of all health databases, whether maintained for scientific research which has long used them or for government or community health planning, or by groups of professionals (or individuals) to help in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h"],"yoast_head":"\nHealth databases - Definition of Health databases<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The centralized collection and storage of information about the health of individuals. 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