Security and privacy of electronic health records: Concerns and challenges
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Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) can provide many benefits to physicians, patients and healthcare services if they are adopted by healthcare organizations. But concerns about privacy and security that relate to patient information can cause there to be relatively low EMR adoption by a number of health institutions. Safeguarding a huge quantity of health data that is sensitive at separate locations in different forms is one of the big challenges of EMR. A review is presented in this paper to identify the health organizations’ privacy and security concerns and to examine solutions that could address the various concerns that have been identified. It shows the IT security incidents that have taken place in healthcare settings. The review will enable researchers to understand these security and privacy concerns and solutions that are available.
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Healthcare datasets primarily consist of patient information, and strict regulation of medical privacy encompasses the security of medical records and the confidentiality of conversations between healthcare professionals.
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- Authors
- Keshta, I., & Odeh, A.
- Affiliations
- Almaarefa University (SA)
- Princess Sumaya University for Technology (JO)
- Corresponding author
- Keshta, Ismail
- Venue
- Egyptian Informatics Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-07
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 177-183
- ISSN
- 1110-8665 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3047027698
- Cited by
- 498
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 49 · 2025: 118 · 2024: 149 · 2023: 107 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 39.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Egyptian Informatics Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- AlMaarefa University
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Thoreau and American Literature
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Keywords
- electronic health records, privacy, information security, patient data protection, EMR adoption, security solutions
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