Information technologies. Physician-hospital networks.
Patient care efficiencies and quality of care improvements require progressive efforts to integrate the patient information systems and allow for on-demand accessibility to authorized information users. The dilemma facing the designers and managers of these systems is that each step toward improving accessibility seems to introduce another potential information leakage point. We are reminded once again that information is a very difficult resource to control because it is possible to steal it without removing it physically from its storage place. The essence of information security in physician links is captured by establishing mechanisms for identifying system users, limiting user authority, assuring the privacy of transmitted data, and monitoring system use and users.
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Department of Health Information Management, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN.
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D016494:Computer Security; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D014481:United States