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Security of Electronic Medical Records

Security of Electronic Medical Records
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Author(s): Ana Ferreira (University of Kent, UK & University of Porto, Portugal), Ricardo Cruz-Correia (CINTESIS, Portugal & University of Porto, Portugal), Luís Antunes (LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal)and David Chadwick (University of Kent, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Athina A. Lazakidou (University of Peloponnese, Greece)and Konstantinos M. Siassiakos (University of Piraeus, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter reports the authors’ experiences regarding security of the electronic medical record (EMR). Although the EMR objectives are to support shared care and healthcare professionals’ workflow, there are some barriers that prevent its successful use. These barriers comprise not only costs, regarding resources and time, but also patient / health professional relations, ICT (information and communication technologies) education as well as security issues. It is very difficult to evaluate EMR systems; however some studies already made show problems regarding usability and proper healthcare workflow modeling. Legislation to guide the protection of health information systems is also very difficult to implement in practice. This chapter shows that access control, as a part of an EMR, can be a key to minimize some of its barriers, if the means to design, develop and evaluate access control are closer to users’ needs and workflow complexity.

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