Privacy Management in Consumer e-Health

Healthcare organizations are moving towards more diversified channels to provide the healthcare services. The increasing dependency on the Internet to provide the healthcare services opens up a whole gamut of privacy concerns of consumers and providers. The misuse of personally identifiable information could drag the patient to vulnerability, humiliation, discrimination, economic hardship. There is a need for tools to improve transparency and awareness of information security practices in the context of Internet based consumer e-health systems. This paper presents a cooperative management methodology for the development of privacy solutions for consumer e-health.