Information Security Threats in Patient-Centred Healthcare

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Author(s): Shada Alsalamah (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), Hessah Alsalamah (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), Alex W. Gray (Cardiff University, UK)and Jeremy Hilton (Cranfield University, UK)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 21
Source title: M-Health Innovations for Patient-Centered Care
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anastasius Moumtzoglou (P&A Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9861-1.ch015

Keywords: Media & Communications / Medical Information Science Reference / Medical Technologies / Mobile Computing

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Abstract

Healthcare is taking an evolutionary approach towards the adoption of Patient-Centred (PC) delivery approach, which requires the flow of information between different healthcare providers to support a patient's treatment plan, so the Care Team (CT) can seamlessly and securely access relevant information held in the different discrete Legacy Information Systems (LIS). Each of these LIS deploys an organisational-driven information security policy that meets its local information sharing context needs. Nevertheless, incorporating these LIS in collaborative PC care brings multiple inconsistent policies together, which raises a number of information security threats that can block the CT access to critical information across a patient's treatment journey. Using an empirical study, this chapter identifies information security threats that can cause the issue, and defines a common collaboration-driven information security design. Finally, it identifies requirements in LIS to address the inconsistent policies in modern PC collaborative environments that would help improve the quality of care.

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