Health information privacy and e-healthcare

Authors: Kelly, Eileen P.; Unsal, Fahri

Source: International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, Volume 4, Numbers 1-2, 30 June 2003 , pp. 41-52(12)

Publisher: Inderscience Publishers

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Abstract:

E-healthcare offers tremendous benefits to healthcare stakeholders. Nonetheless, that very same technology poses unprecedented challenges to patient and consumer privacy. While technology itself may resolve some security concerns through encryption and other control mechanisms, privacy issues are too critical to be left to technological resolutions alone. Furthermore, industry self-regulation efforts have not allayed the fears of privacy advocates nor staved off efforts to increase government regulation of privacy interests. This article examines the challenges of health information privacy from ethical, legal and technological perspectives.

Keywords: HEALTHCARE AND LEISURE JOURNALS; Healthcare and Medical Technology and Management; MANAGEMENT JOURNALS; Policy and Organisational Management; PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION JOURNALS; Public Policy and Public Services

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJHTM.2002.001128

Affiliations: 1: Ithaca College, School of Business, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. Ithaca College, School of Business, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Publication date: 2003-06-30

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The International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management is a new series emerging from the International Journal of Technology Management. It provides an international forum and refereed authoritative sources of information in the fields of management, economics and the management of technology in healthcare.
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