Securing electronic medical records transmissions over unsecured communications: An overview for better medical governance
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
Nowadays, health care is one of the most important subjects in life. In USA, 100 billion dollars will be spent on it in the next 10 years, according to experts. The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is usually a computerized legal medical record created in an organization that delivers care, such as hospital and doctors' surgery. In the age of technology, one of the most important factors for EMR is that it secures the records for the patients, protects their rights and is responsible for the disclosure of their data. An overview of this study has presented the importance of the privacy of the EMR and the patients' rights. In addition, cryptography algorithms and security requirements have been discussed and the paper has also discussed different architecture, designs and systems that have been reported in the literature. In a nutshell, most of these systems are poor in terms of achieving the security requirements, while on the other side, most of the systems have not discussed the patients' rights and how the system can detect the persons who broadcast these records.
Keywords
Electronic medical record, information security, data privacy, rights of patient and cryptography algorithms
Publication Title
Journal of Medicinal Plants Research
Volume
4
Issue
19
Publisher
Academic Journals
Publisher Location
P O BOX 5170-00200 NAIROBI, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS 73023, NIGERIA