Legal issues in the transition to electronic records in health care

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Abstract

In today's digital society, ongoing concerns about the privacy and security of personal data are ever increasing, especially in health care. While we gradually need higher electronic access to medical information, issues relating to patient privacy and reducing possible security breaches increase. In this paper, we focus on identifying the general rules and the regulations that are currently in place to protect the privacy and security of medical data, and more specifically information contained in electronic health records (EHR). This review is particularly important since EHRs are expected to become nationally adopted in the US by the next decade and are already underway in many European countries. Based on this legal overview, unresolved challenges are identified. © Springer Physica-Verlag 2010.

Identifier

84887310866 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9783790821475]

Publication Title

Information Systems People Organizations Institutions and Technologies Itais the Italian Association for Information Systems

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2148-2_37

First Page

321

Last Page

326

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