title: The role of standards in a dynamic area.
abstract: It proves difficult to achieve a good measure of security in medical informatics applications. A number of reasons for this are analyzed. It is argued, that standardisation will help in solving this problem to a certain extent, but a more complete solution is possible when this is used in close conjunction with legal instruments (e.g. EU directives) and advice of a less strict nature, like guidelines. On the whole, a pragmatic step-by-step approach is needed, although there are signs that the general environment for these developments is improving.
authors.affiliation: Central Department for Information Processing (CDIV), Leiden University Hospital (AZL), Netherlands.
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Louwerse
mesh_terms: D003197:Computer Literacy; D016494:Computer Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D005062:European Union; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000592:standards