There is increasing pressure on medical practices to use digital information systems for storage of patient data. Some consideration is given to protecting these systems from a external or “ hacker” focus. This paper looks at the issue that the increasing use of digital information systems has for insider malfeasance.

Medical Informatics has traditionally been concerned with optimizing the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. These systems have hence often payed little attention to supporting the collaborative nature of most medical work. In this position paper, we want to introduce our ongoing work on CSCW research in a healthcare context. Particularly, we want ...

Health Information Managers (HIMs) are responsible for overseeing health information. The change management necessary during the transition to electronic health records (EHR) is substantial, and ongoing. Archetype-based EHRs are a core health information system component which solve many of the problems that arise during this period of change. Archetypes are models of clinical content, and they...

Modern medical image diagnostic are often based on X-ray, computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging technique. The raw data delivered by such imaging devices more often than not take several mega-bytes of disk space. The diagnostic images for radiology interpretation must be efficiently stored and transmitted by physician for the further medical or legal purposes. Digital medical i...