Investigating risk exposure in e-health systems

: The increasing dependency being placed on electronic health information systems presents new challenges for today’s health managers and systems developers. This paper uses Electronic Health Records to demonstrate how there are four critical attributes for e-health system development. To produce dependable and viable IT solutions, each attribute needs to be specifically addressed and prioritized. It will be shown how these attributes possess a number of interdependencies making the analysis and prioritization tasks complex and hence, in practice, often incomplete. The proposed QUiPS model aims to provide a complete framework for building trustworthy solutions. It identifies the pertinent issues and the tools and techniques needed to determine the risk exposure with a given system. The results from one of the Case Studies that focuses on Usability is detailed, while other studies relating to Safety and Privacy are outlined. The outcomes to the proposed approach are e-health systems t...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: IJMI
• Authors: Peter R. Croll, Jasmine Croll
• Keywords: Electronic Health, Electronic Health Information, IJMI 2007, Today’s Health Managers