As health-care providers embrace the Internet to reduce medical error, they must make sure not to unreasonably publicize patient medical information to avoid facing such causes of action as breach of confidentiality, invasion of privacy and breach of contract.
Medical errors can be reduced when the Internet is used to communicate electronic medical records and information. Currently health-care providers are using the Internet to maintain and disseminate patient information and to distribute recent medical findings and guidelines.
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