title: Setting core standards: privacy, identity & interoperability.
abstract: This position paper focuses on strategic developments and underlying concepts emerging out of the standards and associated domains. It addresses the issue of personal privacy in the wider context of interoperability across an ever-growing range of e-health and social care support systems and processes. These will increasingly be driven by major growth in the elderly segment of national populations where unambiguous identification of both patients and care staff both in hospitals and the community will become significant issues. This is particularly so where remote patient monitoring and access control to personal data is concerned, and is further complicated where racial, cultural and linguistic barriers are prevalent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Informatics, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Manning
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benton
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D018511:Systems Integration; D006113:United Kingdom