COVID-19: between the right to health and the protection of privacy

Authors

  • Angelo Venchiarutti Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26439/iusetpraxis2020.n50-51.5027

Keywords:

confidentiality, doctor, patient, health data, third parties, risk of harm, duty to protect

Abstract

Keeping patient privacy becomes an ethical and legal dilemma for doctors and hospitals when this can cause harm to third parties. This short article aims to study the questions that arise in this regard with reference to patients with COVID-19. To this end, taking into account the jurisprudential and doctrinal guidelines also developed in legal systems other than the Italian, the circumstances that justify the violation of patient confidentiality by doctors are analyzed.

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Published

2020-12-23

Issue

No. 50-51: 2019-2020

Section

Articles

How to Cite

COVID-19: between the right to health and the protection of privacy. (2020). Ius Et Praxis, 50(50-51), 11-22. https://doi.org/10.26439/iusetpraxis2020.n50-51.5027