Health care security and privacy, quality and safety

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Security and Privacy

Background:

• Working Group 6 (WG6) of CEN/TC251 focuses on Security and Privacy, Quality, and Safety in Healthcare.
• Priorities include addressing Data Protection in Health Care Information Systems, aligning with SOGITS directives.

Purpose of the Study:

• To advance standardization in healthcare data protection.
• To acknowledge and mitigate the challenge of low awareness regarding these issues.
• To bridge the gap between theoretical standards and practical implementation in healthcare IT.

Main Methods:

• Leveraging results from the related AIM-project (SEISMED).
• Reviewing ongoing work within WG6 on data protection.
• Considering practical challenges and awareness levels in the field.

Main Results:

• Ongoing work on data protection in health information systems is being sketched.
• Other work items for WG6 are being reviewed.
• The approach emphasizes practical applicability and awareness.

Conclusions:

• Standardization efforts must consider practical implementation challenges.
• Raising awareness is crucial for effective data protection in healthcare.
• WG6's work builds upon prior research to enhance healthcare security and privacy.