Protecting Patient Privacy in Cyber Environments

Aarts, J., Adams, S., Kaplan, B., DeMuro, P.R., Solomonides, T., Protecting Patient Privacy in Cyber Environments, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 2016

3 Pages Posted: 23 Nov 2016

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Jos Aarts

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)

Samantha Adams

Tilburg University

Bonnie Kaplan

Yale University; Yale University - Yale Information Society Project; Department of Biostatistics (Health Informatics); Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Yale Law School

Paul DeMuro

Nossaman LLP

Anthony E. Solomonides

NorthShore University HealthSystem / Research Institute

Date Written: March 9, 2016

Abstract

Confidentiality in the medical encounter is crucial to providing adequate patient care. Health data is therefore privileged and protected by legal mechanisms. Health systems use electronic records and large-scale databases. Increasingly consumers use also IT to collect, store and share data about daily life and health behaviors. Sharing data via network-based systems or storing it ‘in the cloud’ produces multiple ‘digital selves,’ health ‘data doubles’ and ‘virtual patients.’ With so many stakeholders involved much data is produced without clear governance structures, blurring the view of what is done with the data. These problems are exacerbated through the networked, distributed nature of health data collection and convergence of protected hospital systems, commercial collection and aggregation of data and consumer health technologies. This brings patient privacy into the realm of cybersecurity. This panel explores how cybersecurity impacts the governance of critical IT infrastructures and mitigation of threats, what sociotechnical challenges are related to protection of large-scale HIT systems, how surveillance and bioethics studies seek to understand threats to personal privacy in the context of networked technologies and finally what changes to laws and regulations would be required.

Keywords: Patient privacy, health data protection, cybersecurity, health care legal, ethical and regulatory issues, health data governance

Suggested Citation

Aarts, Jos and Adams, Samantha and Kaplan, Bonnie and DeMuro, Paul and Solomonides, Anthony E., Protecting Patient Privacy in Cyber Environments (March 9, 2016). Aarts, J., Adams, S., Kaplan, B., DeMuro, P.R., Solomonides, T., Protecting Patient Privacy in Cyber Environments, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2874079

Jos Aarts

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) ( email )

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Samantha Adams

Tilburg University ( email )

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Bonnie Kaplan (Contact Author)

Yale University ( email )

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United States

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Yale Law School ( email )

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Paul DeMuro

Nossaman LLP ( email )

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Anthony E. Solomonides

NorthShore University HealthSystem / Research Institute ( email )

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United States
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