Individual Privacy, Institutional Accountability: The Challenge of Electronic Records

NARA's Electronic Records Archive (ERA) - The Electronic Records Challenge

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation’s recordkeeper. NARA is a public trust that safeguards the records of the American people, ensuring the accountability and credibility of their national institutions, while documenting their national experience. Today NARA holds an estimated 4 billion records nationwide. The Archives consists of the permanently valuable recor...

A Criticism of the Current Security, Privacy and Accountability Issues in Electronic Health Records

Cryptography has been widely accepted for security and partly for privacy control as discovered from past works. However, many of these works did not provide a way to manage cryptographic keys effectively especially in EHR applications, as this is the Achilles heel of cryptographic techniques currently proposed. The issue of accountability for legitimate users also has not been so popular and o...

Challenge of electronic medical records.

Privacy-Preserving Electronic Health Records

Electronic health records enable the global availability of medical data. This has numerous benefits for the quality of offered services. However, privacy concerns may arise as now both the patient’s medical history as well as the doctor’s activities can be tracked. In this paper, we propose an electronic health record system which allows the patient to control who has access to her health reco...

Information Privacy Concerns: Linking Individual Perceptions with Institutional Privacy Assurances

Organizational information practices can result in a variety of privacy problems that can increase consumers’ concerns for information privacy. To explore the link between individuals and organizations regarding privacy, we study how institutional privacy assurances such as privacy policies and industry self-regulation can contribute to reducing individual privacy concerns. Drawing on Communica...