Taiwan's perspective on electronic medical records' security and privacy protection: Lessons learned from HIPAA

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 277-282

  Yang, Che Ming ^a   Lin, Herng Ching ^a   Chang, Polun ^b   Jian, Wen Shan ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electronic medical record; Medical information; Privacy; Protection; Security

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SECURITY OF DATA;

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIVACY; SECURITY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIVACY; TAIWAN;

COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;

EID: 33744919262     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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