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The EU and its member states have adopted new laws protecting the content of databases. These laws can affect the operations of the Internet as the addressing scheme relies on easy access to distributed databases. But, more importantly for the topic of this lecture, these laws can also affect the practice of medicine and the delivery of health care.
This highlights a specific issue: Currently the Internet is a useful medium for the distribution of classification schemes. (Of course, it is just one of several.) But new database protection laws may reduce the availability of this type of information. |
