Research Article
Threats and Challenges to Security of Electronic Health Records
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-37949-9_48, author={Shalini Bhartiya and Deepti Mehrotra}, title={Threats and Challenges to Security of Electronic Health Records}, proceedings={Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. 9th International Conference, QShine 2013, Greader Noida, India, January 11-12, 2013, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2013}, month={7}, keywords={Challenges to EHR EHR HIS Security Threats}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-37949-9_48} }- Shalini Bhartiya
Deepti Mehrotra
Year: 2013
Threats and Challenges to Security of Electronic Health Records
QSHINE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37949-9_48
Abstract
Healthcare has always been a sensitive and a complex process. Rapid strides have been made both in the field of information technology as well as health care successfully integrating both for better facilities and services offered by the health-givers. Electronic health records (EHRs) is the product of this integration and forms an integral part of the automated healthcare system. Accessing of EHR by each stakeholder complements the issues of data disclosure, confidentiality, authenticity and privacy that are likely to occur due to many reasons. This paper aims at studying and identifying security threats to EHR in the hospital information system currently prevailing in the hospitals (HIS). It further categorizes the threats based on security characteristics and rates them on the basis of impact and magnitude of loss to the patients. The paper highlights real-time scenarios with each as an important requirement of the health-givers on one hand, can also be a reason of security breaches on other hand. It concludes by listing challenges and recommendations to curb security threats commonly found in the physical setup of healthcare environment.