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Patient Privacy and Security in E-Health

Patient Privacy and Security in E-Health

Güney Gürsel
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781522588979|ISBN10: 1522588973|EISBN13: 9781522588986
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8897-9.ch027
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Gürsel, Güney. "Patient Privacy and Security in E-Health." Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 562-575. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8897-9.ch027

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Gürsel, G. (2019). Patient Privacy and Security in E-Health. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 562-575). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8897-9.ch027

Chicago

Gürsel, Güney. "Patient Privacy and Security in E-Health." In Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 562-575. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8897-9.ch027

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Abstract

In the digital era, undoubtedly, e-health is a major contributor for decision support, education, research and management activities in healthcare. It provides tremendous benefits by easy store and access to data. This easiness brings a big problem together with the benefits. Users have easy access to vast amount of sensitive health data about patients. This may give way to misuse and abuse. That is why the concepts of privacy and security becomes very popular and point of major concern. This chapter is a descriptive study aimed to give principles of these concepts and invoke awareness about.

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