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Citation
Marci Meingast, Tanya Roosta, Shankar Sastry. "Security and Privacy Issues with Health Care Information Technology". IEEE International Conference of the, August, 2006.

Abstract
The face of health care is changing as new technologies are being incorporated into the existing infrastructure. Electronic Patient Records and sensor networks for in-home patient monitoring are at the current forefront of new technologies. Paper-based patient records are being put in electronic format enabling patients to access their records via the Internet. Remote patient monitoring is becoming more feasible as specialized sensors can be placed inside homes. The combination of these technologies will improve the quality of health care by making it more personalized and reducing costs and medical errors. While there are benefits to technologies, associated privacy and security issues need to be analyzed to make these systems socially acceptable. In this paper we explore the privacy and security implications of these next-generation health care technologies. We describe existing methods for handling issues as well as discussing which issues need further consideration.

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  Marci Meingast, Tanya Roosta, Shankar Sastry. "Security
  and Privacy Issues with Health Care Information
  Technology". IEEE International Conference of the,
  August, 2006.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{MeingastRoostaSastry06_SecurityPrivacyIssuesWithHealthCareInformationTechnology,
      author = {Marci Meingast and Tanya Roosta and Shankar Sastry},
      title = {Security and Privacy Issues with Health Care
                Information Technology},
      booktitle = {IEEE International Conference of the},
      month = {August},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {The face of health care is changing as new
                technologies are being incorporated into the
                existing infrastructure. Electronic Patient
                Records and sensor networks for in-home patient
                monitoring are at the current forefront of new
                technologies. Paper-based patient records are
                being put in electronic format enabling patients
                to access their records via the Internet. Remote
                patient monitoring is becoming more feasible as
                specialized sensors can be placed inside homes.
                The combination of these technologies will improve
                the quality of health care by making it more
                personalized and reducing costs and medical
                errors. While there are benefits to technologies,
                associated privacy and security issues need to be
                analyzed to make these systems socially
                acceptable. In this paper we explore the privacy
                and security implications of these next-generation
                health care technologies. We describe existing
                methods for handling issues as well as discussing
                which issues need further consideration.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/233.html}
  }
  

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