Title :
Secure collaboration technology for healthcare enterprises
Author :
Raman, Ravi S. ; Jagannathan, V. ; Reddy, Ramana
Author_Institution :
Concurrent Eng. Res. Center, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV, USA
Abstract :
Healthcare organizations have a legacy of relatively isolated vendor-proprietary departmental systems. The cost of integrating disparate healthcare systems is a significant barrier to collaborative endeavors such as telemedicine. Recent legislative measures for the protection of healthcare information place significant responsibilities on healthcare organizations to ensure that their healthcare systems and information technology practices adequately protect the privacy of healthcare information in their charge. The authors, who are developing secure telemedicine applications, identify some of these hurdles and discuss their approach to enable healthcare organizations to engage in collaborative healthcare activities
Keywords :
data privacy; groupware; health care; information technology; legislation; medical administrative data processing; security of data; healthcare enterprises; healthcare information protection; healthcare systems integration; information technology practices; legislative measures; privacy; secure collaboration technology; telemedicine applications; vendor-proprietary departmental systems; Charge measurement; Collaboration; Costs; Current measurement; Information technology; Isolation technology; Medical services; Privacy; Protection; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1997. Proceedings., Sixth IEEE Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7967-0
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1997.630824
