The Need for Technical Solutions for Maintaining the Privacy of EHR

Author

Ray, Pradeep ; Wimalasiri, Jaminda

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Syst., Technol. & Manage., New South Wales Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

4686

Lastpage

4689

Abstract

Electronic Health Records (EHR)/Electronic Patient Records (EPR)/Electronic Medical Records (EMR) provide the basis for e-Health services. Since information in these records (containing patient healthcare information) need to be shared amongst multiple healthcare providers and healthcare professionals, privacy issues of EHR have been a major inhibitor in the implementation of EHR/EMR/EPR systems. This paper presents EHR privacy requirements in the context of two major e-Health frameworks, namely HealthLink in Australia and HIPAA in USA. The paper concludes with a discussion of some evolving Web-based solutions

Keywords

Internet; health care; medical information systems; security of data; EHR privacy; Web-based solutions; e-Health services; electronic health records; electronic medical records; electronic patient records; patient healthcare information; Aging; Australia; Data privacy; Data security; Hospitals; Information security; Management information systems; Medical services; Paramagnetic resonance; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260862

Filename

4462848