Professional paper
Understanding Privacy Basics in Healthcare
Hrvoje Belani
orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-7502
; Ministry of Health, Directorate for e-Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Achieving and maintaining patient privacy and data protection are inevitable in providing trustworthy healthcare, but often the topics that have not been given enough attention. Understanding privacy basics is crucial for empowering citizens in care, e. g. patients and protégés as well as healthcare workers while providing healthcare. This work covers the following areas and topics of the privacy basics in the context of healthcare: privacy as a human right; short history of privacy; personal privacy protection; privacy and dignity; privacy vs. confidentiality; privacy and availability; cybersecurity vs. privacy; cybersecurity including “CIA triad” and patient safety; privacy in healthcare including legal aspects of data protection. Although this work is suitable for readers with no previous knowledge in privacy, it is useful to relate to everyday-life examples from private and professional surroundings when learning about privacy in healthcare, from both patient and healthcare worker perspectives if applicable. Privacy protection, patient data confidentiality and overall cybersecurity are of huge importance in achieving reliable, trustworthy, safe, and secure environment for both patients and healthcare workers as well as the data they process in any applicable sense.
Keywords
privacy; healthcare; data protection; confidentiality; cybersecurity
Hrčak ID:
285167
URI
Publication date:
6.11.2022.
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