The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) integrates heterogeneous information within a
Healthcare Institution stressing the need for security and access control. The Biostatistics …

Information Technology-supported Heathcare (eHealth) is crucial in order to reduce
healthcare costs, and improve quality of care and patient safety. Among technologies in …

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems have an abundance of convenience for
telediagnosis, medical data sharing and management. The main obstacle for wide adoption …

In healthcare, role-based access control systems are often extended with exception
mechanisms to ensure access to needed information even when the needs don't follow the …

The protection of personal health information has become a live issue in a number of
countries, including the USA, Canada, Britain and Germany. The debate has shown that …

In this paper, we present a framework where access rights are provided to entities on the
basis of the actual task that the entities must fulfill as part of their duties. For capturing the …

In this paper, we propose a proximity based automated access control (PBAC) model for
smart-ED environments which improves the existing ED work-flow by automating mundane …

Adopting IT as an integral part of business and operation is certainly making the healthcare
industry more efficient and cost-effective. With the widespread digitalization of personal …

Health information about a patient is usually kept local to the hospital or clinic where the
patient was treated. Patient Controlled Health Records (PCHR) has been proposed as a …

Clinical records constitute one of the most sensitive and private information of any individual.
With the widespread digitalization of such records-coupled with omnipresence of networks …