A Cryptographic Key Management Solution for HIPAA Privacy/Security Regulations

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security regulations are two crucial provisions in the protection of healthcare privacy. Privacy regulations create a principle to assure that patients have more control over their health information and set limits on the us...

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Published in:IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2008-01, Vol.12 (1), p.34-41
Main Authors: Lee, W-B, Lee, C-D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Confidentiality - legislation & jurisprudence
Cryptography
Data security
Disaster management
Feasibility Studies
Guidelines
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Information security
Insurance
key management
Medical services
patient's privacy
Privacy
protected health information (PHI)
Protection
Security Measures
United States
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Summary:The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security regulations are two crucial provisions in the protection of healthcare privacy. Privacy regulations create a principle to assure that patients have more control over their health information and set limits on the use and disclosure of health information. The security regulations stipulate the provisions implemented to guard data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Undoubtedly, the cryptographic mechanisms are well defined to provide suitable solutions. In this paper, to comply with the HIPAA regulations, a flexible cryptographic key management solution is proposed to facilitate interoperations among the applied cryptographic mechanisms. In addition, case of consent exceptions intended to facilitate emergency applications and other possible exceptions can also be handled easily.
ISSN:1089-7771
2168-2194
1558-0032
2168-2208
DOI:10.1109/TITB.2007.906101