Security and Privacy of Electronic Healthcare Records

Download or read book Security and Privacy of Electronic Healthcare Records written by Sudeep Tanwar and published by Institution of Engineering and Technology. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitals, medical practices and healthcare organizations are implementing new technologies at breakneck speed. Yet privacy and security considerations are often an afterthought, putting healthcare organizations at risk of data security and privacy issues, fines, damage to their reputations, with serious potential consequences for the patients. Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) consist of clinical notes, patient listings, lab results, imaging results and screening tests. EHRs are growing in complexity over time and requiring increasing amounts of data storage.