The need for technical solutions for maintaining the privacy of EHR.
Electronic Health Records (EHR)/Electronic Patient Records (EPR)/Electronic Medical Records (EMR) provide the basis for e-Health services. Since information in these records (containing patient healthcare information) need to be shared amongst multiple healthcare providers and healthcare professionals, privacy issues of EHR have been a major inhibitor in the implementation of EHR/EMR/EPR systems. This paper presents EHR privacy requirements in the context of two major e-Health frameworks, namely HealthLink in Australia and HIPAA in USA. The paper concludes with a discussion of some evolving Web-based solutions.
Ray
Pradeep
P
Sch. of Inf. Syst., Technol. & Manage., New South Wales Univ., Australia. p.ray@unsw.edu.au
Wimalasiri
Jaminda
J
D022126:Access to Information; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D001315:Australia; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D003201:Computers; D003219:Confidentiality; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D033283:Patient Access to Records; D011381:Programming Languages; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States