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Privacy and Access Control for IHE-Based Systems

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Electronic Health Record (EHR) is the heart element of any e-health system, which aims at improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare through the use of information and communication technologies. The sensitivity of the data contained in the health record poses a great challenge to security. In this paper we propose a security architecture for EHR systems that are conform with IHE profiles. In this architecture we are tackling the problems of access control and privacy. Furthermore, a prototypical implementation of the proposed model is presented.

eHealth 2008, September 8th and 9th, 2008, City University, London EC1.

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Katt, B., Breu, R., Hafner, M., Schabetsberger, T., Mair, R., Wozak, F. (2009). Privacy and Access Control for IHE-Based Systems. In: Weerasinghe, D. (eds) Electronic Healthcare. eHealth 2008. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 0001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_18

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