title: A cryptographic key management solution for HIPAA privacy/security regulations.
abstract: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security regulations are two crucial provisions in the protection of healthcare privacy. Privacy regulations create a principle to assure that patients have more control over their health information and set limits on the use and disclosure of health information. The security regulations stipulate the provisions implemented to guard data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Undoubtedly, the cryptographic mechanisms are well defined to provide suitable solutions. In this paper, to comply with the HIPAA regulations, a flexible cryptographic key management solution is proposed to facilitate interoperations among the applied cryptographic mechanisms. In addition, case of consent exceptions intended to facilitate emergency applications and other possible exceptions can also be handled easily.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia Unversity, Taichung 407, Taiwan, ROC. wblee@fcu.edu.tw
authors.forename: W-B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: C-D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D012637:Security Measures; D014481:United States