Security Techniques for the Electronic Health Records

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Kruse, Clemens Scott ^a   Smith, Brenna ^a   Vanderlinden, Hannah ^a   Nealand, Alexandra ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptography; Electronic health record (EHR); Firewall; Protected health information (PHI); Security safeguards

Indexed keywords

CINAHL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HUMAN; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; SCIENTIST; TEXAS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIVACY;

COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; PRIVACY; SECURITY MEASURES;

EID: 85025471987     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-017-0778-4     Document Type: Article

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