A research proposal submitted in fulfillment of the subject of Health Law,

semester 10th during the academic year 2021-22.

Submitted to: Submitted by:

Mr. Kumar Gaurav RAHUL RAJ (Roll 1845)
Faculty, B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.)
Health law

Subject: HEALTH LAW

CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, PATNA

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Medical records are increasingly kept in electronic form. The existence of large medical
databases raises new questions about privacy and control over that information. When
records exist in a form that can easily be shared with others, there are legitimate privacy
concerns.

Privacy is an underlying governing principle of the patient – physician relationship

for effective delivery of healthcare. Patients are required to share information with their
physicians to facilitate correct diagnosis and determination of treatment, especially to
avoid adverse drug interactions. However patients may refuse to divulge important
information in cases of health problems such as psychiatric behavior and HIV as their
disclosure may lead to social stigma and discrimination . Over time, a patient‘s medical
record accumulates significant personal information including identification, history of
medical diagnosis, digital renderings of medical images, treatment received, medication
history, dietary habits, sexual preference, genetic information, psychological profiles,
employment history, income, and physicians‘ subjective assessments of personality and
mental state among others.

This paper also presents recent techniques of privacy preserving in big data like hiding a
needle in a haystack, identity based anonymization, differential privacy, privacy
preserving big data publishing and fast anonymization of big data streams
This paper refers to privacy and security aspects of healthcare in big data

HYPOTHESIS
✓ This paper argues that the fear regarding healthcare data security is not properly a privacy
issue, but rather concerns the viability of social norms that govern the doctor-patient
relationship and the use of medical information that is obtained within that relationship.
✓ There can be no balance between protecting an individual’s medical information from
disclosure that might cause harm to the individual while at the same time improving the
quality of medical care and of medical research.
 ✓ The goal of this paper is to provide a major review of the privacy preservation mechanisms
in big data and present the challenges for existing mechanisms.

Tentative Chapterisation

1. Introduction

2. Data Interoperability and Information Security

3. Threats to health Information Privacy

4. Health Information Privacy legislations and Regulations

5. Privacy and security concerns in big data

6. Conclusion