Information and the NHS (For me or for them)? -- Chances, Risks and Side Effects of Chip Cards in Medicine: A Technology Assessment Study from Germany -- Exceptionalism Redux: How Different is Health Care Informatics? -- Clinical Record Systems in Oncology. Experiences and Developments on Cancer Registers in Eastern Germany -- Organisation of General Practice: Implications for IM&T in the NHS -- Practical Protection of Confidentiality in Acute Health Care -- Clinical Systems Security - Implementing the BMA Policy and Guidelines -- User-Oriented Control of Personal Information Security in Communication Systems -- Information Management as Risk Management -- Responsibility Modelling: A New Approach to the Re-alignment and Re-engineering of Health-Care Organisations -- Keeping Confidence in Confidentiality: Linking Ethics, Efficacy, and Opportunity in Health Care Computing -- Electronic Patient Records: Usability vs Security, with Special Reference to Mental Health Records -- Security and Confidentiality Issues Relating to the Electronic Interchange of Clinical Data -- Privacy Oriented Clearing for the German Health-Care System -- Personal Health Data on Optical Memory Cards in Isehara City -- The Perspective of Medical Ethics -- Legal Requirements for Computer Security: An American Perspective -- U.S. Health Information Privacy Policy: Theory and Practice -- Managing Health Data Privacy and Security: A Case Study from New Zealand -- An Update on the BMA Security Policy -- Author Index.