Electronic Healthcare Information Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction to e-Healthcare Information Security

   • Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi

   Pages 1-27

3. Securing e-Healthcare Information

   • Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi

   Pages 29-57

4. Laws and Standards for Secure e-Healthcare Information

   • Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi

   Pages 59-100

5. Secure e-Healthcare Information Systems

   • Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi

   Pages 101-121

6. Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Secure e-Healthcare Information

   • Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi

   Pages 123-150

7. Towards a Unified Security Evaluation Framework for e-Healthcare Information Systems

   • Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi

   Pages 151-172

8. Discussions

   • Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi

   Pages 173-183

9. Back Matter

   Pages 185-190

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The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in healthcare is driven by the need to contain costs while maximizing quality and efficiency. However, ICT adoption for healthcare information management has brought far-reaching effects and implications on the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath, patient privacy and confidentiality. A wave of security breaches have led to pressing calls for opt-in and opt-out provisions where patients are free to choose to or not have their healthcare information collected and recorded within healthcare information systems. Such provisions have negative impact on cost, efficiency and quality of patient care. Thus determined efforts to gain patient trust is increasingly under consideration for enforcement through legislation, standards, national policy frameworks and implementation systems geared towards closing gaps in ICT security frameworks. The ever-increasing healthcare expenditure and pressing demand for improved quality and efficiency in patient care services are driving innovation in healthcare information management. Key among the main innovations is the introduction of new healthcare practice concepts such as shared care, evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines and protocols, the cradle-to-grave health record and clinical workflow or careflow. Central to these organizational re-engineering innovations is the widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at national and regional levels, which has ushered in computer-based healthcare information management that is centred on the electronic healthcare record (EHR).

• Healthcare informatics
• Radiologieinformationssystem
• data security
• e-Healthcare
• e-Healthcare information systems
• e-health
• electronic health
• healthcare
• information security
• information system
• privacy
• quality
• security

• Infonomics Society, United Kingdom and Ireland

  Charles A. Shoniregun

• Computer Science and Information Technology School of Engineering & Advanced Technology (SEAT), Massey University, New Zealand

  Kudakwashe Dube

• Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

  Fredrick Mtenzi

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