Chen, Yu Chia2019-09-252019-09-252011-03-032010-071173-2571http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/176631Taiwan‘s policy to develop a ―biomedical technology island‖ encompasses three major elements: a center for excellence in clinical trials; the national health information platform; and the Taiwan biobank. The current research has compiled the miscellaneous challenges and suspicions of human rights and civil organizations towards biomedical research, as well as their proposals, and analyzed the views of the public toward the national policy for an integrated biomedical information system. In particular, it has carried out a national public opinion survey in order to assist in drafting a direction for policy. The investigation reported here utilized telephone interviewing in the period December 2 through 9, 2008, and completed interviews with 2446 persons; this achieves representation of the population with a level of confidence level of 95%, with a sampling error of no more than ±1.98%. The investigation discovered that most of the Taiwan public in concerned for the government‘s utilization of health information, and realizes the importance of the health information policy for provision of related information to the public.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderGood governanceinformation ethicsBioethicsArticle