scholarly journals Risk Management For Health Information Security And Privacy

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirza B. Murtaza
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Electronic Medical Records ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Policies

The challenge of securing large amounts of electronic medical records stored in a variety of forms and in many locations, while still making it available to authorized users, is huge. Pressure to maintain privacy and protection of personal information is a strong motivating force in the development of security policies. It is essential for health care organizations to analyze, assess and ensure security policies to meet these challenges and to develop the necessary policies to ensure the security of medical information.

scholarly journals The Use of Medical Records in Research: What Do Patients Want?

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Kass ◽  
Marvin R. Natowicz ◽  
Sara Chandros Hull ◽  
Ruth R. Faden ◽  
Laura Plantinga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Growing Body

In the past ten years, there has been growing interest in and concern about protecting the privacy of personal medical information. Insofar as medical records increasingly are stored electronically, and electronic information can be shared easily and widely, there have been legislative efforts as well as scholarly analyses calling for greater privacy protections to ensure that patients can feel safe disclosing personal information to their health-care providers. At the same time, the volume of biomedical research conducted in this country continues to grow. The budget of the National Institutes of Health, for example, was $20,298 million in 2001, having more than doubled from a budget of $9,218 million 10 years before. This growing body of research includes increased efforts to use stored medical records as a source of data for health services, epidemiologic, and clinical studies.

scholarly journals A Secure E-Health System

2020 ◽  
pp. 1008-1010
Author(s):  
Harshali Kulwal ◽  
Pallavi Badhe ◽  
Sneha Ingole ◽  
Monika Madhure ◽  
Archana. K
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Medical Records ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Internet Security ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
System Input

Existing Health Management Systems are faced with various security and privacy issues such as unauthorized Access to Patient Records, internet security issues, etc. The proposed system mainly focuses on the security of Electronic Medical Records . The purpose of the project entitled “A SECURE eHealth SYSTEM” is to develop software which is user-friendly, fast, and cost-effective. It deals with the collection of patient’s information, Doctor details, Medical information. Traditionally, it was done manually. The main function of the system is to register and store patient details, add symptom and doctor details and retrieve these details as and when required, and also to manipulate these details meaningfully. System input contains patient details, doctor details while system output is to appoint a doctor for the patient, display these details on the screen, securely generated electronic medical records, forward prescriptions to the medical store. The eHealth system can be entered using a unique ID generated during registration and password. It is accessible either by a doctor, patient, pharmacist. Only registered members add data into a database. The data can be retrieved easily. The data is well protected and the data processing becomes very fast.

scholarly journals European Hospitals’ Transition Toward Fully Electronic-Based Systems: Do Information Technology Security and Privacy Practices Follow? (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvestre Uwizeyemungu ◽  
Placide Poba-Nzaou ◽  
Michael Cantinotti
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
It Security ◽  
Privacy Measures ◽  
Security Index

BACKGROUND Traditionally, health information has been mainly kept in paper-based records. This has deeply changed throughout approximately the last three decades with the widespread use of multiple health information technologies. The digitization of health care systems contributes to improving health care delivery. However, it also exposes health records to security and privacy breaches inherently related to information technology (IT). Thus, health care organizations willing to leverage IT for improved health care delivery need to put in place IT security and privacy measures consistent with their use of IT resources. OBJECTIVE In this study, 2 main objectives are pursued: (1) to assess the state of the implementation of IT security and privacy practices in European hospitals and (2) to assess to what extent these hospitals enhance their IT security and privacy practices as they move from paper-based systems toward fully electronic-based systems. METHODS Drawing on data from the European Commission electronic health survey, we performed a cluster analysis based on IT security and privacy practices implemented in 1723 European hospitals. We also developed an IT security index, a compounded measure of implemented IT security and privacy practices, and compared it with the hospitals’ level in their transition from a paper-based system toward a fully electronic-based system. RESULTS A total of 3 clearly distinct patterns of health IT–related security and privacy practices were unveiled. These patterns, as well as the IT security index, indicate that most of the sampled hospitals (70.2%) failed to implement basic security and privacy measures consistent with their digitization level. CONCLUSIONS Even though, on average, the most electronically advanced hospitals display a higher IT security index than hospitals where the paper system still dominates, surprisingly, it appears that the enhancement of IT security and privacy practices as the health information digitization advances in European hospitals is neither systematic nor strong enough regarding the IT-security requirements. This study will contribute to raising awareness among hospitals’ managers as to the importance of enhancing their IT security and privacy measures so that they can keep up with the security threats inherently related to the digitization of health care organizations.

The Priority of Privacy for Medical Information

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wagner DeCew
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Secondary Use ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Unauthorized Disclosure ◽  
And Storage

Individuals care about and guard their privacy intensely in many areas. With respect to patient medical records, people are exceedingly concerned about privacy protection, because they recognize that health care generates the most sensitive sorts of personal information. In an age of advancing technology, with the switch from paper medical files to massive computer databases, privacy protection for medical information poses a dramatic challenge. Given high-speed computers and Internet capabilities, as well as other advanced communications technologies, the potential for abuse is much greater than ever before. At every stage in the process of collection and storage, dangers can arise, including entry errors, improper access, exploitation, and unauthorized disclosure. Secondary use and aggregation of data are all far easier, faster, and less expensive, and thus pose additional threats to an individual's control over the disposition of medical information.

scholarly journals HealthyBlock: Blockchain-Based IT Architecture for Electronic Medical Records Resilient to Connectivity Failures

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7132
Author(s):  
Omar Gutiérrez ◽  
Giordy Romero ◽  
Luis Pérez ◽  
Augusto Salazar ◽  
Marina Charris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Record ◽  
Electronic Medical Record ◽  
Electronic Medical Records ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Electronic Medical Record System ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Record System ◽  
Treatment And Prevention

The current information systems for the registration and control of electronic medical records (EMR) present a series of problems in terms of the fragmentation, security, and privacy of medical information, since each health institution, laboratory, doctor, etc. has its own database and manages its own information, without the intervention of patients. This situation does not favor effective treatment and prevention of diseases for the population, due to potential information loss, misinformation, or data leaks related to a patient, which in turn may imply a direct risk for the individual and high public health costs for governments. One of the proposed solutions to this problem has been the creation of electronic medical record (EMR) systems using blockchain networks; however, most of them do not take into account the occurrence of connectivity failures, such as those found in various developing countries, which can lead to failures in the integrity of the system data. To address these problems, HealthyBlock is presented in this paper as an architecture based on blockchain networks, which proposes a unified electronic medical record system that considers different clinical providers, with resilience in data integrity during connectivity failure and with usability, security, and privacy characteristics. On the basis of the HealthyBlock architecture, a prototype was implemented for the care of patients in a network of hospitals. The results of the evaluation showed high efficiency in keeping the EMRs of patients unified, updated, and secure, regardless of the network clinical provider they consult.

scholarly journals The Current State of Research, Challenges, and Future Research Directions of Blockchain Technology in Patient Care: Systematic Review

10.2196/18619 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. e18619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polina Durneva ◽  
Karlene Cousins ◽  
Min Chen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Medical Information Systems ◽  
Blockchain Technology

Background Blockchain offers a promising new distributed technology to address the challenges of data standardization, system interoperability, security, privacy, and accessibility of medical records. Objective The purpose of this review is to assess the research on the use of blockchain technology for patient care and the associated challenges and to provide a research agenda for future research. Methods This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines. We queried the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE), and Web of Science databases for peer-reviewed research articles published up to December 2019 that examined the implementation of blockchain technology in health care settings. We identified 800 articles from which we selected 70 empirical research articles for a detailed review. Results Blockchain-based patient care applications include medical information systems, personal health records, mobile health and telemedicine, data preservation systems and social networks, health information exchanges and remote monitoring systems, and medical research systems. These blockchain-based health care applications may improve patient engagement and empowerment, improve health care provider access to information, and enhance the use of health care information for medical research. Conclusions Blockchain health information technology (HIT) provides benefits such as ensuring data privacy and security of health data, facilitating interoperability of heterogeneous HIT systems, and improving the quality of health care outcomes. However, barriers to using blockchain technology to build HIT include security and privacy vulnerabilities, user resistance, high computing power requirements and implementation costs, inefficient consensus algorithms, and challenges of integrating blockchain with existing HIT. With 51% of the research focused on medical information systems such as electronic health record and electronic medical record, and 53% of the research focused on data security and privacy issues, this review shows that HIT research is primarily focused on the use of blockchain technologies to address the current challenges HIT faces. Although Blockchain presents significant potential for disrupting health care, most ideas are in their infancy.

scholarly journals The Current State of Research, Challenges, and Future Research Directions of Blockchain Technology in Patient Care: Systematic Review (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polina Durneva ◽  
Karlene Cousins ◽  
Min Chen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Medical Information Systems ◽  
Blockchain Technology

BACKGROUND Blockchain offers a promising new distributed technology to address the challenges of data standardization, system interoperability, security, privacy, and accessibility of medical records. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this review is to assess the research on the use of blockchain technology for patient care and the associated challenges and to provide a research agenda for future research. METHODS This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines. We queried the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE), and Web of Science databases for peer-reviewed research articles published up to December 2019 that examined the implementation of blockchain technology in health care settings. We identified 800 articles from which we selected 70 empirical research articles for a detailed review. RESULTS Blockchain-based patient care applications include medical information systems, personal health records, mobile health and telemedicine, data preservation systems and social networks, health information exchanges and remote monitoring systems, and medical research systems. These blockchain-based health care applications may improve patient engagement and empowerment, improve health care provider access to information, and enhance the use of health care information for medical research. CONCLUSIONS Blockchain health information technology (HIT) provides benefits such as ensuring data privacy and security of health data, facilitating interoperability of heterogeneous HIT systems, and improving the quality of health care outcomes. However, barriers to using blockchain technology to build HIT include security and privacy vulnerabilities, user resistance, high computing power requirements and implementation costs, inefficient consensus algorithms, and challenges of integrating blockchain with existing HIT. With 51% of the research focused on medical information systems such as electronic health record and electronic medical record, and 53% of the research focused on data security and privacy issues, this review shows that HIT research is primarily focused on the use of blockchain technologies to address the current challenges HIT faces. Although Blockchain presents significant potential for disrupting health care, most ideas are in their infancy.

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