2017/12/12 by Israel Cole, Liswani Sibamba, Cole, Israel +5
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Data Quality and Management #Digital and Cyber Forensics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information and Cyber Security
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1712.04560
openalex publication_date 2017/12/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance. The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the increasing need for information exchange between patients, providers and payers, all point towards the need for better information security. We critically survey the literature on information security and privacy in healthcare, published in information systems journals as well as many other related disciplines including health informatics, public health, law, medicine, and the trade press and industry reports