OBJECTIVE: To report the results of a systematic literature review concerning the security
and privacy of electronic health record (EHR) systems. DATA SOURCES: Original articles …

Recently, the healthcare sector has shown a growing interest in information technologies.
Two popular health IT (HIT) products are the electronic health record (EHR) and health …

Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance.
The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the …

BACKGROUND Companies collect data related to individuals for various purposes. For
example, companies may require a person to provide certain personal information to …

The notion of privacy in the healthcare domain is at least as old as the ancient Greeks.
Several decades ago, as electronic medical record (EMR) systems began to take hold, the …

Background: Even though many safeguards and policies for electronic health record (EHR)
security have been implemented, barriers to the privacy and security protection of EHR …

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

Personal health records (PHR) is a technology for managing the information playing field in
healthcare. With multiple vendors competing on this relatively new market, an evaluation …

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 …

Securing electronic health records, in scenarios in which the provision of care services is
share among multiple actors, could become a complex and costly activity. Correct …