[The problem of the year 2000--are health services threatened by computer chaos?].
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K R Iversen
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Socio-technical aspects of the use of health related personal information for management and research.
This paper focuses on the organisational, technical and ethical aspects related to the use of person identifiable health information for various health care management, administration, finance, research and educational purposes. It is based on the ethical standpoint that to the individuals in question, the identifiable health information represents the uttermost sensitive and critical information. In addition, nobody, possibly apart from the patients themselves, may claim ownership of such information. Thus identifiable health information should be (per individual) kept as collected and protected as possible, within the scope of the patient provider relationship. Identifiable health information should, whenever possible and reasonable, be restricted to the health care professionals providing the treatment and care to the patient, and only be made available to others, e.g. for management, research or educational purposes, either in anonymous or pseudonymous form. Secure information management (SIM) is presented as the socio-technical means to facilitate our ethical standpoint in a practical health care environment.
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An information security management strategy for healthcare institutions.
This paper starts with a criticism of existing security management practices and argues why they are not adequate for health care enterprises and institutions. It further outlines a sociotechnical perspective on information security, from which an alternative approach and strategy for information security management practice is suggested.
Computer Security↗
Implementing security in computer based patient records clinical experiences.
In Norway, organizational changes in hospitals and a stronger focus on patient safety have changed the way of organizing and managing paper based patient records. Hospital-wide patient records tend to replace department based records. Since not only clinicians, but also other non-medical staff have access to the paper records, they also have easy access to all the information which is available on a specific patient; such a system has obvious 'side effects' on privacy and security. Computer based patient records (CPRs) can provide the solution to this apparent paradox if the complex aspects of security, privacy, effectiveness, and user friendliness are focused on jointly from the outset in designing such systems. Clinical experiences in Norway show that it is possible to design patient record systems that provide a very useful tool for clinicians and other health care personnel (HCP) while fully complying with comprehensive security and privacy requirements.
Clinical Laboratory Information Systems↗
Security requirements for electronic patients records: the Norwegian view.
Information security, including secrecy, privacy and data integrity, quality and availability, are fundamental issues when electronic patient records are introduced and used. In this paper we outline the results of a project that KITH carried out on an assignment from the Norwegian Ministry of Health. We describe the general and detailed requirements set up in the project for electronic patient records, and to the hospitals that take such into use. We believe that these requirements are the minimum necessary to give a positive answer to the question of whether electronic patient records can meet all the security-related requirements and intentions given by current regulations. In our work we have focused on secrecy, privacy and data integrity, but also on elaborating requirements that allow a user friendly and suitable implementation of electronic patient record systems.
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