Electronic Health Records: Convenience Vs Potential Security Vulnerability
Author(s) -
Roshan Hewapathiranae
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
sri lanka journal of bio-medical informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2012-6077
DOI - 10.4038/sljbmi.v2i2.3858
Subject(s) - publishing , health informatics , vulnerability (computing) , digital health , publication , sri lanka , library science , promotion (chess) , informatics , political science , peer review , internet privacy , public relations , world wide web , computer science , health care , computer security , sociology , socioeconomics , politics , law , tanzania
Information Technology is reaching all corners of the health care domain in the form of electronic health and medical records. Storage of personal information for remote access is now on the increase (1) . Computerisation of personal health records increase the portability and accessibility of data and at the same time it makes information more vulnerable to unauthorised and unscrupulous access (2) .
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