title: The use of biometrics in the Personal Health Record (PHR).
abstract: The emergence of the Personal Health Record (PHR) has made individual health information more readily accessible to a wide range of users including patients, consumers, practitioners, and healthcare providers. However, increased accessibility of PHR threatens the confidentiality, privacy, and security of personalized health information. Therefore, a need for robust and reliable forms of authentication is of prime concern. The concept of biometric authentication is now highly visible to healthcare providers as a technology to prevent unauthorized access to individual health information. Implementing biometric authentication mechanisms to protect PHR facilitates access control and secure exchange of health information. In this paper, a literature review is used to explore the key benefits, technical barriers, challenges, and ethical implications for using biometric authentication in PHR.
authors.affiliation: School of Business and Technology, Capella University, USA. bonney@cs.dal.ca
authors.forename: Wilfred
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bonney
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry; D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D055991:Health Records, Personal / Q000941:ethics; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States