The protection of patients' health information is a very important concern in the information age. The purpose of this study is to ascertain what constitutes an effective legal framework in protecting both the security and privacy of health information, especially electronic medical records. All sorts of bills regarding electronic medical data protection have been proposed around the world incl...

Although banking, insurance, and real estate have eagerly embraced electronic record keeping, most hospitals and physician practices have by and large clung to paper patient records. A recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics indicated that only onefourth of office-based physicians currently have an electronic medical record-keeping...

Abstract— Legislation in many countries treats electronic signatures similar to autographic ones. Completely electronic processes thereby are theoretically possible but customers today have neither knowledge nor means to issue electronic signatures. This study describes a process that will produce some reliable signature without the need of preparation on side of the customer. As an example the...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are becoming highly prevalent today and have the potential to add to the success of spontaneous reporting systems for post marketing surveillance of drugs. EHR systems broadly contain two forms of information viz. coded (structured) information and unstructured text. Researchers have shown that the textual data have much more utility for cohort building th...

This paper reviews theoretical and empirical literature on the measurement of the major automobile externalities, namely local pollution, global pollution, oil dependence, traffic congestion and traffic accidents. It then dicusses the rationale for traditional policies to address these externalities, including fuel taxes, fuel economy standards, emissions standards and related policies. Finally...

Over the last decade, the popularity of e-mail communication between doctors and patients has risen steadily. The asynchronous nature of e-mail provides convenience and more effective use of time for both parties; patients can make appointments or get prescriptions. Physicians and their staffs can provide lab results or patient follow up more efficiently. E-mail also provides an electronic "pap...

OBJECTIVES National health insurance is now common in most developed countries. This study reviews the evidence and synthesizes the cost-effectiveness information for national health insurance or disability insurance programs across high-income countries. DATA SOURCES A literature search using health, economics and systematic review electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, Medline, Econlit, RepE...

In this paper we discuss that software processes for the development of electronic commerce systems are different from software processes for other kinds of information systems. We underpin this assumption by discussing an example software process and software architecture. This example is driven by real-world requirements. It is the development of a portal solution which is to be used by sales...

The migration to Electronic Health Records (EHR) has raised issues with respect to security and privacy. One such issue that has become a concern for the healthcare providers, insurance companies and pharmacies is Patient Health Information (PHI) leak. Borrowing from Document Control Domain (DCD) literature, in this paper, we develop a methodology for detection and mitigation of PHI leaks by em...

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is fueling a revolution in the health care industry. The potential for significant reductions in the administrative costs of paying medical claims has everyone from the Health Insurance Association of America, both Democratic and Republican members of Congress, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and even the President of the...