Title :
Security Standards for Electronic Health Records
Author :
Par, O.E. ; Soysal, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Health Inf., Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkey
Abstract :
Circulation of personal health records in digital media has increased by intensive usage of technology on health sector. Circulation of personal health records in electronic media brings with security and privacy issues. Electronic health records are all of this information which includes patient data from birth to the death of the patient. Since electronic health records include private and unchangeable information, it is being tried to forbid their usage revelation without permission in accordance with the related legislations. Digitization of personal health records also brings with security risks. A number of technical and legal infrastructure is needed to eliminate these risks. With the scope of the research national (such as HIPAA) and international standards (such as ISO) has been studied.
Keywords :
medical information systems; security of data; HIPAA; ISO; digital media; electronic health records; electronic media; health sector; intensive usage; international standards; legal infrastructure; patient data; personal health records; privacy issues; security issues; security standards; technical infrastructure; usage revelation; Electronic medical records; ISO standards; Information security; Information technology; Law; HIPAA; ISO; ISO 20000; Security of Personal Health Records;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2497-7
DOI :
10.1109/ASONAM.2012.148
