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¹Research Group Quality Engineering, University of Innsbruck, Austria. basel.katt@uibk.ac.at

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Area of Science:

Health Informatics
Information Security
Computer Science

Background:

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are crucial for healthcare savings, quality improvement, and error reduction.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a key initiative standardizing healthcare data exchange in distributed environments.
Current IHE security profiles have limitations, including insufficient endpoint security and oversimplified approaches for complex requirements.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the shortcomings of current IHE security profiles.
To propose an improved security methodology for EHR systems.
To enhance data security and privacy in distributed healthcare settings.

Main Methods:

Leveraging previous research on security-aware IHE systems.
Applying the Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
Developing a domain-wide security approach to overcome endpoint security limitations.

Main Results:

Identified insufficiency of endpoint security in current IHE profiles.
Highlighted the need for more robust and architecturally sound security solutions.
Proposed Security-as-a-Service as a viable methodology for comprehensive EHR security.

Conclusions:

The current endpoint security methodology in IHE profiles is inadequate for distributed healthcare environments.
A Security-as-a-Service approach offers a promising solution to enhance EHR security and address complex requirements.
Further development is needed to integrate architectural design into IHE security profiles.