title: Security and privacy issues with health care information technology.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. marci@eecs.berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Marci
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meingast
authors.forename: Tanya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Roosta
authors.forename: Shankar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sastry
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D003628:Database Management Systems; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D018907:Privacy; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods