Security and Integrity in Healthcare Information Systems

Introduction

For the purpose of our discussion, we have chosen case study 3 as it represents a variety of security and integrity related issues in the context of healthcare settings. As evident from the case studies, there are a number of privacy issues in the context of patient records since the patient records are increasingly being used for the vested interests of physicians and other hospital staff. Since the hospital staff and physicians have unrestricted access to the patient records, there are a number of legal and ethical challenges in the case of these healthcare ...