Privacy, security and storage issues in medical data management

Author

Khadka, S.

Author_Institution

Inf. & Commun. Technol., Asian Inst. of Technol., Pathumthani, Thailand

fYear

2012

fDate

23-25 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Health care industries are adopting Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system from paper based records. With EMR, health services can be provided at accelerated rate but privacy, security and storage of information will be of concern. There are different regulations for the use and disclosure of health information. In this research study, we focus on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and discuss how it protects health information of an individual while allowing the flow of information to carry out necessary health care functions. The web based EMR system is proposed based on security and privacy features defined by HIPAA.

Keywords

Internet; data privacy; health care; medical information systems; security of data; EMR health services; HIPAA; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; Web based EMR system; electronic medical record system; health care functions; health care industries; health information; health information protection; medical data management; privacy features; privacy issues; security features; security issues; storage issues; Encryption; Hospitals; Insurance; Privacy; Surgery; EMR; HIPAA; data storage; health care; privacy rules; security rules;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet (AH-ICI), 2012 Third Asian Himalayas International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kathmandu

ISSN

2157-0647

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2591-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AHICI.2012.6408435

Filename

6408435