TY - GEN
T1 - Legal issues in the transition to electronic records in health care
AU - Walsh, D.
AU - Passerini, K.
AU - Varshney, U.
AU - Fjermestad, J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In today's digital society, ongoing concerns about the privacy and security of personal data are ever increasing, especially in health care. While we gradually need higher electronic access to medical information, issues relating to patient privacy and reducing possible security breaches increase. In this paper, we focus on identifying the general rules and the regulations that are currently in place to protect the privacy and security of medical data, and more specifically information contained in electronic health records (EHR). This review is particularly important since EHRs are expected to become nationally adopted in the US by the next decade and are already underway in many European countries. Based on this legal overview, unresolved challenges are identified.
AB - In today's digital society, ongoing concerns about the privacy and security of personal data are ever increasing, especially in health care. While we gradually need higher electronic access to medical information, issues relating to patient privacy and reducing possible security breaches increase. In this paper, we focus on identifying the general rules and the regulations that are currently in place to protect the privacy and security of medical data, and more specifically information contained in electronic health records (EHR). This review is particularly important since EHRs are expected to become nationally adopted in the US by the next decade and are already underway in many European countries. Based on this legal overview, unresolved challenges are identified.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-7908-2148-2_37
DO - 10.1007/978-3-7908-2148-2_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887310866
SN - 9783790821475
T3 - Information Systems: People, Organizations, Institutions, and Technologies - ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems
SP - 321
EP - 326
BT - Information Systems
PB - Physica-Verlag
T2 - 5th Conference of the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems, ItAIS 2008
Y2 - 13 December 2008 through 14 December 2008
ER -