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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 12/28/2009
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| Security in Health Information Systems |
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| Founded: 1976 |
| Membership: 60 |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
To examine the issues of data protection and security within the health-care environment. The Data Protection in Health Information Systems Working Group addresses state-of-the-art security of distributed electronic patient records (EPR).
Next meeting:
The WG's 2009 workshop, "Trustworthiness of health information ... Issues in security and system management for patient safety", will be held at the International Conference Center, Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan on 21-24, November 2009. Full information is at http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/humind1/comhi2009/imia2009.html
Recent activities:
Working Conference in Dijon France Thursday April 27 to Sunday April 30, 2006.
The working group conducted a working conference in Dijon France, Thursday April 27 to Sunday April 30, 2006. Francois Allaert (FR) was Chair of the Local Organizing Committee. Francis Roger France (B) Chair of the Scientific Program Committee.
The theme of the conference was: SECURE eHealth Managing risk of patient's data
Four themes had been defined. These were chaired by specific coordinators:
- Telecommunication and Wireless Technologies - F. Allaert
- Ethics and Laws for eHealth in Telemedicine - E. Kluge
- Long Term Data Preservation and Intelligibility - A. Bakker
- Security of Community Wide Health Care Records - N. Gaunt
The conference was attended by 43 participants from 14 countries, including representatives of private industry, governmental organizations and academia. Sixteen of the presented papers were selected for publication in an upcoming Special Issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, which is expected to be published early in 2007, with electronic versions of the papers being perhaps available in 2006 already. The publication will include the recommendations worked out during the conference.
The conference coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of the working group, which was inaugurated on the instigation of Francois Gremy, France, in June 1976 under the leadership of Gerd Griesser, then Director of the Institut fuer Medizinische Dokumentation und Statistik, of the Christian Albrechts Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany, later President of this University.
The memory of Gerd Griesser was revived by instituting the Gerd Griesser Award for the best paper contributed by a student or young investigator to one of the working groups working conferences. This award was created on the initiative of Ab Bakker, Leiden, past chair of the Working Group, by the Board of the Dutch Foundation -International Conferences in Medical Informatics- (ICMI) and carries a value of 1,000 Euro. An international panel of 5 judges unanimously and independently selected Dr. Becker's paper "Information Governance in NHS's NPfIT: A Case for Policy Specification" as the best paper, noting in particular the importance of the issue addressed, the originality of the chosen approach, and the clarity of presentation. Dr. Moritz Y. Becker is a member of the Security Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.
During its business meeting at the conference, the Working Group decided to adopt a more regular mode of leadership transition with the election of a Vice-Chair every three years, who is to succeed the current Chair, and to endeavour to achieve alternation between continents in the provision of leadership. Accordingly, Francois Allaert, France, and Kiyomu Ishikawa, Japan, were elected as Chair and Vice- chair respectively to succeed Jochen Moehr, Canada.
Our proposal for the joint session with WG1 and JHIFT was accepted by MEDINFO 2007. It is scheduled in Brisbane on August 21 as an Educational Program (S080).
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