Title :
An Electronic Health Record Content Protection System Using SmartCard and PMR
Author :
Yu, Weider D. ; Chekhanovskiy, Mark A.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. Dept., San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA
Abstract :
In order to comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Healthcare IT managers are faced with growing need to protect access and use of patient´s private information and to maintain its access-trail. Recent reports [2, 12, and 14] show that deployed medical records administrative systems are failing to protect patient´s electronic health records (EHR). Major deficiencies of EHR management system used today are inconsistencies and interoperability in security systems. This paper presents a patient-centric content protection system that is based on temper-resistant hardware and widely adopted security protocols for identification, EHR encryption, and communication. High availability and interoperability of EHR content protection system is achieved with the use of a specially designed device called Personalized Media Recordertrade (PMR).
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; health care; medical information systems; open systems; smart cards; IT manager; SmartCard; electronic health record content protection system; electronic health record management system; health care; health insurance portability-accountability act; interoperability; patient private information use; personalized media recorder; security protocol; temper-resistant hardware; ANSI standards; Authentication; Communication system security; Cryptography; Data security; Hardware; Information security; Insurance; Medical services; Protection;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Application and Services, 2007 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0942-X
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381595
