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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 40 , Issue 8 (August 1997) table of contents

Pages: 92 - 100

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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Thomas C. Rindfleisch

Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 18

	Konstantin Knorr , Susanne Röhrig, Towards a secure web-based healthcare application, Knowledge media in healthcare: opportunities and challenges, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2002
	Shengli Wu , Amit Sheth , John Miller , Zongwei Luo, Authorization and Access Control of Application Data in Workflow Systems, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, v.18 n.1, p.71-94, January 2002
	Shari Trewin, Configuration agents, control and privacy, Proceedings on the 2000 conference on Universal Usability, p.9-16, November 16-17, 2000, Arlington, Virginia, United States
	Csilla Farkas , Sushil Jajodia, The inference problem: a survey, ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, v.4 n.2, p.6-11, December 2002
	Terry Huston, Security issues for implementation of e-medical records, Communications of the ACM, v.44 n.9, p.89-94, Sept. 2001
	Russell W. Robbins , William A. Wallace , Bill Puka, Supporting ethical problem solving: an exploratory investigation, Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment, April 22-24, 2004, Tucson, AZ, USA
	Steven Walczak, Redesigning the Medical Office for Improved Efficiency: An Object-Oriented Event-Driven Messaging System, Journal of Medical Systems, v.24 n.1, p.29-37, Feb. 2000
	Elmé Smith , Jan H. P. Eloff, Cognitive Fuzzy Modeling for Enhanced Risk Assessment in a Health Care Institution, IEEE Intelligent Systems, v.15 n.2, p.69-75, March 2000
	John Fulcher, The use of smart devices in eHealth, Proceedings of the 1st international symposium on Information and communication technologies, September 24-26, 2003, Dublin, Ireland
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	Matt Henricksen , William Caelli , Peter Croll, Securing grid data using mandatory access controls, Proceedings of the fifth Australasian symposium on ACSW frontiers, January 30-February 02, 2007, Ballarat, Australia
	Khin T. Win , John A. Fulcher, Consent Mechanisms for Electronic Health Record Systems: A Simple Yet Unresolved Issue, Journal of Medical Systems, v.31 n.2, p.91-96, April 2007
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	B. Skov , Th. Høegh, Supporting information access in a hospital ward by a context-aware mobile electronic patient record, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, v.10 n.4, p.205-214, March 2006
	Tamara Dinev , Paul Hart , Michael R. Mullen, Internet privacy concerns and beliefs about government surveillance - An empirical investigation, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, v.17 n.3, p.214-233, September, 2008
	K. V. Renaud, Guidelines for designing graphical authentication mechanism interfaces, International Journal of Information and Computer Security, v.3 n.1, p.60-85, June 2009
	Tamara Dinev , Paul Hart, An Extended Privacy Calculus Model for E-Commerce Transactions, Information Systems Research, v.17 n.1, p.61-80, March 2006

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.4.1 Public Policy Issues
Subjects: Privacy

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
Subjects: Human factors; Human information processing

J. Computer Applications
J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
Subjects: Medical information systems; Health

K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

General Terms:
Human Factors, Security

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"Marlene L. Campbell : Reviewer"

The author presents a clear discussion of the advantages, disadvantages, and hazards of a move to electronic patient records (EPRs). He takes a systems view of privacy and information security in health care, putting “the most urgent thr more...

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