| Authors: | Gritzalis S., Lambrinoudakis C., Lekkas D., Deftereos S. |
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| Title: | Technical Guidelines for Enhancing Privacy and Data Protection in Modern Electronic Medical Environments |
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| Journal: | IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine |
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| Volume: | 9 |
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| Number: | 3 |
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| Pages: | 413-423 |
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| Year: | 2005 |
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| Publisher: | IEEE Press |
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| To appear: | No |
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| Link: | http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023%2FB%3AJOMS.0000044956.55209.75.pdf |
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| ISI: | Yes |
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| Impact Factor: | 1.939 |
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| Abstract: | Raising awareness and providing guidance to on-line data protection is by all means
a crucial issue worldwide. Equally important is the issue of applying privacy-related
legislation in a coherent and coordinated way. Both these topics become even more
critical when referring to medical environments and thus to the protection of patients’
privacy and medical data. Electronic medical transactions require the transmission
of personal and medical information over insecure communication channels like the
Internet. It is therefore a rather straightforward task to construct “patient profiles” that
capture the electronic medical behavior of a patient, or even reveal sensitive information
in regard with her/his medical history. Clearly, the consequence from maintaining
such profiles is the violation of the patient’s privacy. This paper studies medical environments
that can support electronic medical transactions or/and the provision of
medical information through the Web. Specifically it focuses on the countermeasures
that the various actor categories can employ for protecting the privacy of personal and
medical data transmitted during electronic medical transactions. |
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