Security and Privacy Issues with Health Care Information Technology

The face of health care is changing as new technologies are being incorporated into the existing infrastructure. Electronic patient records and sensor networks for in-home patient monitoring are at the current forefront of new technologies. Paper-based patient records are being put in electronic for...

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Published in:2006 International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2006, p.5453-5458
Main Authors: Meingast, Marci, Roosta, Tanya, Sastry, Shankar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical monitoring
Data security
Information security
Information technology
Medical diagnostic imaging
Medical services
Patient monitoring
Privacy
Social implications of technology
Space technology
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Summary:The face of health care is changing as new technologies are being incorporated into the existing infrastructure. Electronic patient records and sensor networks for in-home patient monitoring are at the current forefront of new technologies. Paper-based patient records are being put in electronic format enabling patients to access their records via the Internet. Remote patient monitoring is becoming more feasible as specialized sensors can be placed inside homes. The combination of these technologies will improve the quality of health care by making it more personalized and reducing costs and medical errors. While there are benefits to technologies, associated privacy and security issues need to be analyzed to make these systems socially acceptable. In this paper we explore the privacy and security implications of these next-generation health care technologies. We describe existing methods for handling issues as well as discussing which issues need further consideration
ISSN:1557-170X
DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260060