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2. Anonymous ‘Convention n°108 (28 January 1981) for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data’
3. Anonymous ‘French law “Loi informatique et libertés”, Act n°78-17 of 6 January 1978, on information technology, data files and civil liberties’
4. Anonymous ‘Post i-2010 priorities for new strategy for European information society (2010–2015).’
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/docs/post_i2010/090804_ipm_content.pdf
5. Anonymous ‘Since EHR systems may contain a large amount of data over a long period of time, the new European legal framework should also foresee, among other things, the need for a comprehensive logging and documentation of all processing steps that have taken place within the system, combined with regular internal checks and follow-up on correct authorization, and regular internal and external data protection auditing. See also European Commission Commission Recommendation of 2 July 2008 on cross-border interoperability of electronic health records’, C (2008) 3282 final, 2 July 2008, Point 14(k). It will also be an important challenge for legislators to guarantee that all groups in society (including single parents, homeless persons, the elderly and disabled, isolated communities, etc.) have equal access to electronic health records. See also European Commission, ‘e-Health – making healthcare better for European citizens: an action plan for a European e-Health Area’, COM (2004) 356 final, 30 April 2004, 15’