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Health Information Security in Hospitals: the Application of Security Safeguards

INTRODUCTION: A hospital information system has potentials to improve the accessibility of clinical information and the quality of health care. However, the use of this system has resulted in new challenges, such as concerns over health information security. This paper aims to assess the status of i...

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Autores principales: Mehraeen, Esmaeil, Ayatollahi, Haleh, Ahmadi, Maryam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27046944
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.47-50
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description INTRODUCTION: A hospital information system has potentials to improve the accessibility of clinical information and the quality of health care. However, the use of this system has resulted in new challenges, such as concerns over health information security. This paper aims to assess the status of information security in terms of administrative, technical and physical safeguards in the university hospitals. METHODS: This was a survey study in which the participants were information technology (IT) managers (n=36) who worked in the hospitals affiliated to the top ranked medical universities (university A and university B). Data were collected using a questionnaire. The content validity of the questionnaire was examined by the experts and the reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach’s coefficient alpha (α=0.75). RESULTS: The results showed that the administrative safeguards were arranged at a medium level. In terms of the technical safeguards and the physical safeguards, the IT managers rated them at a strong level. CONCLUSION: According to the results, among three types of security safeguards, the administrative safeguards were assessed at the medium level. To improve it, developing security policies, implementing access control models and training users are recommended.
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spelling pubmed-47897432016-04-04 Health Information Security in Hospitals: the Application of Security Safeguards Mehraeen, Esmaeil Ayatollahi, Haleh Ahmadi, Maryam Acta Inform Med Original Paper INTRODUCTION: A hospital information system has potentials to improve the accessibility of clinical information and the quality of health care. However, the use of this system has resulted in new challenges, such as concerns over health information security. This paper aims to assess the status of information security in terms of administrative, technical and physical safeguards in the university hospitals. METHODS: This was a survey study in which the participants were information technology (IT) managers (n=36) who worked in the hospitals affiliated to the top ranked medical universities (university A and university B). Data were collected using a questionnaire. The content validity of the questionnaire was examined by the experts and the reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach’s coefficient alpha (α=0.75). RESULTS: The results showed that the administrative safeguards were arranged at a medium level. In terms of the technical safeguards and the physical safeguards, the IT managers rated them at a strong level. CONCLUSION: According to the results, among three types of security safeguards, the administrative safeguards were assessed at the medium level. To improve it, developing security policies, implementing access control models and training users are recommended. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016-02 2016-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4789743/ /pubmed/27046944 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.47-50 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Esmaeil Mehraeen, Haleh Ayatollahi, Maryam Ahmadi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27046944
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.47-50
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