title: Privacy preservation and information security protection for patients' portable electronic health records.
abstract: As patients face the possibility of copying and keeping their electronic health records (EHRs) through portable storage media, they will encounter new risks to the protection of their private information. In this study, we propose a method to preserve the privacy and security of patients' portable medical records in portable storage media to avoid any inappropriate or unintentional disclosure. Following HIPAA guidelines, the method is designed to protect, recover and verify patient's identifiers in portable EHRs. The results of this study show that our methods are effective in ensuring both information security and privacy preservation for patients through portable storage medium.
authors: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors: Lu-Chou
authors: LC
authors: Huang
authors: Huei-Chung
authors: HC
authors: Chu
authors: Chung-Yueh
authors: CY
authors: Lien
authors: Chia-Hung
authors: CH
authors: Hsiao
authors: Tsair
authors: T
authors: Kao
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003199:Computer Systems; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012985:Software Design; D013624:Taiwan; D014481:United States