Electronic personal health record systems: A brief review of privacy, security, and architectural issues

CONGRESS 2009 - 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 110-120

  Daglish, David ^a   Archer, Norm ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INPUT DATAS; MEDICAL HISTORY; PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD; PRIVACY AND SECURITY; TEST RESULTS;

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; NETWORK SECURITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 74549190480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CONGRESS.2009.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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