scholarly journals Enhancing GDPR compliance through data sensitivity and data hiding tools

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 650-666
Author(s):  
Xabier Larrucea ◽  
Micha Moffie ◽  
Dan Mor
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Data Sensitivity

Since the emergence of GDPR, several industries and sectors are setting informatics solutions for fulfilling these rules. The Health sector is considered a critical sector within the Industry 4.0 because it manages sensitive data, and National Health Services are responsible for managing patients’ data. European NHS are converging to a connected system allowing the exchange of sensitive information cross different countries. This paper defines and implements a set of tools for extending the reference architectural model industry 4.0 for the healthcare sector, which are used for enhancing GDPR compliance. These tools are dealing with data sensitivity and data hiding tools A case study illustrates the use of these tools and how they are integrated with the reference architectural model.

scholarly journals A Comprehensive Survey on Data Utility and Privacy: Taking Indian Healthcare System as a Potential Case Study

Inventions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Prathamesh Churi ◽  
Ambika Pawar ◽  
Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Data Breaches ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Privacy Issues

Background: According to the renowned and Oscar award-winning American actor and film director Marlon Brando, “privacy is not something that I am merely entitled to, it is an absolute prerequisite.” Privacy threats and data breaches occur daily, and countries are mitigating the consequences caused by privacy and data breaches. The Indian healthcare industry is one of the largest and rapidly developing industry. Overall, healthcare management is changing from disease-centric into patient-centric systems. Healthcare data analysis also plays a crucial role in healthcare management, and the privacy of patient records must receive equal attention. Purpose: This paper mainly presents the utility and privacy factors of the Indian healthcare data and discusses the utility aspect and privacy problems concerning Indian healthcare systems. It defines policies that reform Indian healthcare systems. The case study of the NITI Aayog report is presented to explain how reformation occurs in Indian healthcare systems. Findings: It is found that there have been numerous research studies conducted on Indian healthcare data across all dimensions; however, privacy problems in healthcare, specifically in India, are caused by prevalent complacency, culture, politics, budget limitations, large population, and existing infrastructures. This paper reviews the Indian healthcare system and the applications that drive it. Additionally, the paper also maps that how privacy issues are happening in every healthcare sector in India. Originality/Value: To understand these factors and gain insights, understanding Indian healthcare systems first is crucial. To the best of our knowledge, we found no recent papers that thoroughly reviewed the Indian healthcare system and its privacy issues. The paper is original in terms of its overview of the healthcare system and privacy issues. Social Implications: Privacy has been the most ignored part of the Indian healthcare system. With India being a country with a population of 130 billion, much healthcare data are generated every day. The chances of data breaches and other privacy violations on such sensitive data cannot be avoided as they cause severe concerns for individuals. This paper segregates the healthcare system’s advances and lists the privacy that needs to be addressed first.

scholarly journals Difference of Watermarking & Steganography

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S3) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Information Hiding ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Extraction Techniques ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Internet Industry ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
Finger Printing ◽  
The Common

In the current world, the sensitive data are being transferred from source to destination in a much secured way in a common internet is inexorable. There are various technological aspects involved among the data world to protect the sensitive information or data hiding. Watermarking and Steganography are such important techniques which plays a prominent role in such data hiding. Earlier various techniques are been widely used like finger printing, Cryptography for encryption and decryption etc. But in the recent days the Digital Watermarking and Steganography are two range of techniques in such information hiding in a covered or secret way embedding to any host data which can be extracted with proper algorithms after the receiver receives the information. The combination of all these techniques can also bring a change in the internet industry. The information can be concealed and send across in a platform to the receiver with all these hidden techniques whereas the receiver of the data also need to know on the extraction techniques so that the information is been securely sent and received in a two-way communication. This paper deals about the comparing the common factors or attributes among the Watermarking and Steganography techniques.

scholarly journals Governance Tensions in the Healthcare Sector: A Contrasting Case Study in France

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Mériade ◽  
Corinne Rochette
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Business World ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Treatment Centre ◽  
Four Levels

Abstract Background: Political and managerial reforms affect the health sector by translating into governance tensions. As identified in the public management literature, they come from the diffusion of management principles and practices from the business world. They manifest at four levels: institutional, organisational, managerial and instrumental. The objective of this research is to understand how these tensions express healthcare institutions with different status. Methods: We conduct a contrasting case study exploring the cases of two French healthcare institutions, one private for-profit (clinic) and one public not-for-profit (cancer treatment centre). Our analyses are mainly based on the content analysis of 32 semi-structured interviews conducted with staff (nurses, doctors, management and administrative staff) of these two institutions.Results: Our results show that these tensions can be distinguished into three categories (tensions on professional values, standards and practices) which are expressed differently depending on the type of healthcare institution and its main management characteristics.Conclusions: Unexpectedly, in the for-profit institution, the most intense tensions concern professional standards, whereas they concern professional practices in the not-for-profit institution. These analyses can help guide policy makers and health care managers to better integrate these tensions into their political and managerial decisions.

scholarly journals Governance tensions in the healthcare sector: a contrasting case study in France

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Mériade ◽  
Corinne Rochette
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Healthcare Organisation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Business World ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Four Levels

Abstract Background Political and managerial reforms affect the health sector by translating into governance tensions. As identified in the public management literature, these tensions come from the diffusion of management principles and practices from the business world. These tensions manifest at four levels: institutional, organisational, managerial and instrumental. The aim of this research is to understand how these tensions are expressed in healthcare organisations of different status. Methods We conduct a contrasting case study exploring the cases of two French healthcare organisations, one private for-profit (clinic) and one public not-for-profit (cancer treatment centre). Our analyses are mainly based on the content analysis of 32 semi-structured interviews conducted with staff (nurses, doctors, management and administrative staff) of these two organisations. Results Our results show that these tensions can be distinguished into three categories (tensions on professional values, standards and practices) which are expressed differently depending on the type of healthcare organisation and its main management characteristics. Conclusions Unexpectedly, in the for-profit organisation, the most intense tensions concern professional standards, whereas they concern professional practices in the not-for-profit organisation. These analyses can help guide policy makers and healthcare managers to better integrate these tensions into their political and managerial decisions.

scholarly journals Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
YANTO CHANDRA ◽  
LIANG SHANG ◽  
MICHAEL J. ROY
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
New Public

Abstract In recent years ‘social enterprises’ have become important partners in the delivery of key public services such as healthcare. However, little is known about how healthcare social enterprises contribute to public service provision in the health sector. We analyzed 172 social enterprises from four continents involved in healthcare to assess the types of interventions, processes, and roles they play responding to rapidly evolving healthcare systems. We found that they are engaged broadly in three dimensions of health service provision: improving access to health services; improving the quality of health services; and building public health capacity. We contribute to social policy theory by enhancing understanding of the micro-level interventions of social enterprises in the healthcare sector and articulating new dimensions of NPG that include co-innovation, co-lobbying, and co-integration in the context of healthcare.

scholarly journals Analisis Keberlanjutan Inovasi Lokal : Studi Kasus Inovasi e-Health Cimalaka Sehat

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endah Mustika Ramdani
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
Health Innovations ◽  
Depth Interviews

Innovation in public services is a demands , both for central and local governments to improve services to the community. In service innovations at the local level, it certainly brings the risk of rejection from people who are not ready to change. This study aims to examine the local innovations in the health sector, Cimalaka Sehat e-health innovation case studies. The method used is descriptive qualitative with a case study at the Innovation of e-health Cimalaka Sehat services as a pioneer of e-health innovations in the Sumedang Regency. The technique of determining informants uses purposive sampling, data collection is done by observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The results showed that in innovation healthy cimalaka e-health has many advantages for the community through changing processes from manual to online as well as increasing features of health services that support the development of health services for puskesmas. However, from several advantages, there are several constraints and problems including the lack of a thorough understanding of the usefulness of innovation, low commitment and consistency of service providers to adapt to available innovations, with indications that the organizers are in a comfort zone that is providing alternative services similar to the innovation e-health (service through WhatsApp), which actually reduces the value of the usefulness of innovation, so that people are reluctant to change to existing service innovations.

Politicians in Apron: Case Study of Rebel Health Services in Nepal

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhimsen Devkota ◽  
Edwin R. van Teijlingen
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Career Motivation ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
Services Delivery

This article presents the findings of a systematic review on the health consequences of Nepal’s armed conflict waged by the Maoists and the development and trajectory of their health workers. Nepal’s decade-long violent conflict resulted in more than 13 000 deaths, the destruction of more than 1000 health posts and poor health services delivery. At present, most of the former rebel health workers live in remote/rural areas and some are running health centers. The review found that the Maoists had trained more than 2000 health workers, who can be categorized into 4 levels. However, there is little evidence on their competencies and career motivation. The Maoists demand restructuring of the Nepalese health sector and the integration of their health workforce into the national health system. However, there has been no national discussion in Nepal of what kind of health reform and integration model is appropriate for a sustainable peace and improved service delivery.

scholarly journals Work-related factors affecting the retention of medical officers in the preventive healthcare sector of Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahendra Arnold ◽  
Dinusha Fernando ◽  
Kapila Wickramanayake ◽  
Palitha Karunapema ◽  
Sepali Wickramatilake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Preventive Health Services ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Work Schedule ◽  
Factors Affecting

Abstract Background: Human resources are the livelihood of all types of organizations. The biggest challenge that organizations are facing today is not only managing these resources but also retaining them. Preventive health sector plays a vital role in the healthcare system. Medical Officers of Health (MOH) are the Medical Officers providing preventive health services in Sri Lanka. This study was carried out to explore the factors affecting retention of Medical Officers of Health in the preventive health sector in Sri Lanka.Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among Medical Officers of Health in the Colombo district which has 18 MOH Offices with 64 Medical Officers. A pre-tested self-administered questionnaire was used as the study instrument. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, correlation and regression analysis. Results: Regression analysis showed that all four variables; recognition, work schedule, remuneration and responsibility are positively and significantly correlated with retention of Medical Officers of Health in the preventive health sector. The variable ‘work schedule’ showed the highest impact to the retention of Medical Officers of Health.Conclusions: In order to retain trained Medical Officers of Health in the Sri Lankan preventive health sector, health authorities should address the factors that influence retention. If policy makers fail to address these factors the preventive health services will be negative impact due to shortage of key service providers.

scholarly journals Relevance of Adult Higher Education on Knowledge Management in the Healthcare Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tone Vold ◽  
Hanne M. Haave
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Adult Higher Education

Organizations, including the healthcare sector, are subject to changes in market, technology and regulations. This requires enhanced and different types of knowledge, and has led to an increased demand for adult higher education. However, the competencies required need to be met by the providers of higher education. This article presents a qualitative case study investigating the work relevance of an adult education study bachelor programme for middle managers of the public health sector in Norway. The paper explores how the education has shaped the interplay between the student/practitioner and his/her surroundings. The data in the study have been collected using in‑depth interviews. The case study showcases the potential impacts of higher education within public healthcare management in the workplace, also highlighting the factors that are predominant regarding the application and dissemination of formal knowledge in the workplace. The primary findings of this study are that there is an interplay between the form and content of the education, personal capabilities and individual characteristics of the student (employee/health manager), as well as an organizational maturity pertaining to knowledge‑management and the exposure to organizational innovation in the broader healthcare system. The case study contributes to the field of knowledge management issues by showing how a study programme can support the development of knowledge management practices in an organization, through focusing on the relevance pronounced through the management practices.

scholarly journals Policy Implementation And The Promotion Of Service Delivery Within The Public Health Sector In South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Melody Brauns ◽  
Malcolm Wallis
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

The South African healthcare sector stands at the threshold of major restructuring in an attempt to address inadequacies as a result of fragmentation of health services in apartheid South Africa. The level of health services, particularly in rural areas, has decreased and has led to reduced quality and productivity of health services. For individuals residing in rural communities, access to health services can be arduous. Delivery of essential services has to meet the needs of marginalised people who live in remote areas. The health sector is reputed to be good at formulating policies, discussing ideas, making recommendations, and spending resources, but poor on implementing policies. The government insists that the policy framework is transparent and well-defined and that what is needed is effective implementation. Regrettably, the transition of policy into practice is more complex than the perceived judgement of government. Critical concerns regarding issues about how policy can be effectively implemented and who should be responsible for implementation is one of major concern.

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