Information privacy in the evolving healthcare environment / Linda Koontz.
Material type: TextSeries: HIMSS book seriesPublication details: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2017.Edition: Second editionDescription: 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138196124 (hbk.) :
- 610.285 23
- R859.7.S43
Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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4 Week Loan | University Hospital Galway | University Hospital Galway | Library UCHG Galway | 610.285/KOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | RE06833 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Advances in health information technology (health IT) have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare, to increase the availability of health information for treatment, and to implement safeguards that cannot be applied easily or cost-effectively to paper-based health records. However, the digitisation of health information is also raising new privacy risks and concerns. Sensitive health information in digital form is more easily aggregated, used, and shared. In addition, the rising cost of healthcare and the search for efficiency may create incentives to use the information in new ways. Research has consistently shown that while the public sees the potential value of health information exchange and technological advancements, it remains gravely concerned about the privacy of their sensitive health information.
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