ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services

An Advancement in telecommunication combined with improved information infrastructures has opened up new dimensions in e-health environment. Such technologies make readily available to access, store, manipulate and replicate medical information and images. These technologies help reduce the time and...

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Main Authors:	Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke, Ali, Nor'ashikin Bte, AbdManaf, Azizah, Khalifa, Othman Omran
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Published:	http://ejcsit.uniten.edu.my/ 2013
Subjects:	Q Science (General) R Medicine (General)
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spelling	iium-306432014-01-15T07:12:41Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/30643/ ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke Ali, Nor'ashikin Bte AbdManaf, Azizah Khalifa, Othman Omran Q Science (General) R Medicine (General) An Advancement in telecommunication combined with improved information infrastructures has opened up new dimensions in e-health environment. Such technologies make readily available to access, store, manipulate and replicate medical information and images. These technologies help reduce the time and effort in diagnosis and treatment at lower cost. However, protection and authentication of such medical information and images are now becoming increasingly important in telemedicine environment, where images are readily distributed over electronic networks. Intruders/hackers may gain access to confidential information, and possible alter or even delete such vital records. The ultimate success of telemedicine demands an effective technology as well as privacy and security of records should be main concern. This paper explores recent identified privacy and security issues that affect telemedicine by featuring threats on security and authentication of medical records. Various technological methods of protecting telemedicine information were explored. It was found that Digital watermarking has more advantages over other schemes. Hence, Digital watermarking was proposed to curb privacy and security issues in telemedicine. http://ejcsit.uniten.edu.my/ 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/30643/7/ICT_in_Telemedicine_Conquering_Privacy_and_Security_Issues_In_Health_Care.pdf Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke and Ali, Nor'ashikin Bte and AbdManaf, Azizah and Khalifa, Othman Omran (2013) ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services. electronic Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology, 4 (1). pp. 19-24. ISSN 1985-7721 http://ejcsit.uniten.edu.my/index.php/ejcsit/
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spellingShingle	Q Science (General) R Medicine (General) Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke Ali, Nor'ashikin Bte AbdManaf, Azizah Khalifa, Othman Omran ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services
description	An Advancement in telecommunication combined with improved information infrastructures has opened up new dimensions in e-health environment. Such technologies make readily available to access, store, manipulate and replicate medical information and images. These technologies help reduce the time and effort in diagnosis and treatment at lower cost. However, protection and authentication of such medical information and images are now becoming increasingly important in telemedicine environment, where images are readily distributed over electronic networks. Intruders/hackers may gain access to confidential information, and possible alter or even delete such vital records. The ultimate success of telemedicine demands an effective technology as well as privacy and security of records should be main concern. This paper explores recent identified privacy and security issues that affect telemedicine by featuring threats on security and authentication of medical records. Various technological methods of protecting telemedicine information were explored. It was found that Digital watermarking has more advantages over other schemes. Hence, Digital watermarking was proposed to curb privacy and security issues in telemedicine.
format	Article
author	Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke Ali, Nor'ashikin Bte AbdManaf, Azizah Khalifa, Othman Omran
author_facet	Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke Ali, Nor'ashikin Bte AbdManaf, Azizah Khalifa, Othman Omran
author_sort	Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke
title	ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services
title_short	ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services
title_full	ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services
title_fullStr	ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services
title_full_unstemmed	ICT in Telemedicine: Conquering Privacy and Security Issues In Health Care Services
title_sort	ict in telemedicine: conquering privacy and security issues in health care services
publisher	http://ejcsit.uniten.edu.my/
publishDate	2013
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/30643/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/30643/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/30643/7/ICT_in_Telemedicine_Conquering_Privacy_and_Security_Issues_In_Health_Care.pdf
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