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Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) hold the promise of enhancing healthcare delivery by
improving efficiency, accessibility, and accuracy of patient information. However, the
adoption of EMRs is hindered by significant concerns related to privacy and security of
sensitive patient data. This review addresses these concerns by analyzing the specific privacy
and security challenges associated with EMR systems, as well as exploring potential
solutions to mitigate these risks.
The paper examines a range of IT security incidents in healthcare settings, providing insights
into the nature of threats and vulnerabilities. It reviews various algorithms and technologies,
highlighting their strengths and limitations in protecting health data.
Additionally, the paper discusses the transition from traditional paper-based records to
electronic systems, including the associated benefits and challenges. Through an in-depth
analysis of trends and security challenges over the past decade, the review aims to inform
researchers and healthcare professionals about effective strategies for safeguarding EMR
systems.
The findings emphasize the critical impact of robust privacy and security measures on the
successful implementation and acceptance of EMRs in healthcare organizations. Key
technologies such as advanced encryption techniques, multi-factor authentication, and
network access controls are evaluated for their efficacy in addressing these concerns. The
review concludes with recommendations for future research and practice to enhance the
privacy and security of EMRs, ultimately fostering greater trust and adoption of these
systems in healthcare
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 several 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. We review the algorithms, derive insights on their operation, and
highlight their advantages and disadvantages.
The review uncovers many opportunities and challenges for improving privacy and security
measures in future and determines that getting privacy and security right have a significant
impact on the success of Electronic Health Records.
Electronic medical records contain patients’ health-related data and are classified as a major
factor in the application of e-health. Electronic medical records are made up of legal records
that are composed at the hospital environments. These data are then used as the main source
of data for electronic health records.
Even though hospitals use electronic medical records systems in their day-to-day services, the
experience of the healthcare professionals makes them not fully trust the system electronic
health records stored at individual organizations are vulnerable to internal or external agents
that seek to directly violate the security and confidentiality policies of a specific organization.
In this review, we have also done the analysis of the shift of Healthcare records for traditional
papers to electronic health care records. The graphs show the trends in healthcare
organizations' use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and associated security challenges
over time, the other graph compares the key metrics for Electronic Health Records (EHR) use
and security challenges in healthcare organizations between the years 2014 and 2024.
Keywords:
Electronic Health Records, Privacy, Confidentiality, Security
Cite Article:
"Data in Healthcare: Tackling the Security Challenges of Electronic Health Records in Healthcare Organizations", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no.332 - 341, July-2024, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2407038.pdf
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