IT Risk Assessment for Group6 Healthcare Clinic Report

TL;DR

This paper critically surveys existing literature on healthcare information security and privacy, emphasizing the growing importance due to digital records, regulation, and data exchange needs.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review across multiple disciplines, highlighting current challenges and gaps in healthcare information security and privacy research.

Findings

Healthcare data security is increasingly critical due to digital transformation.

Regulatory and technological challenges hinder privacy protection.

Interdisciplinary approaches are essential for effective risk assessment.

Abstract

Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance. The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the increasing need for information exchange between patients, providers and payers, all point towards the need for better information security. We critically survey the literature on information security and privacy in healthcare, published in information systems journals as well as many other related disciplines including health informatics, public health, law, medicine, and the trade press and industry reports