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Preserving Data Privacy and Security in Australian My Health Record System: A Quality Health Care Implication

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Australian My Health Record (MyHR) system must enable efficient availability of meaningful, accurate, complete and up-to-date health data. However, the major challenge must be to ensure the security of the clinical information of the MyHR. The foremost question that remains unanswered is ‘are current information security settings adequate to protect MyHR?’. To build an adequate security setup and increase the uptake of the MyHR system, it is imperative to show the MyHR is safe to use. In addressing this issue and implementing the adoption of the initiative, we determine and systematically analyse the existing threats to the system. We assess strengths of various solutions against possible threats and discuss the development and implementation process of the proposed model.

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  1. Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, VU Research, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Pasupathy Vimalachandran, Yanchun Zhang & Lili Sun

  2. The Department of Computer Science and IT, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Jinli Cao

  3. School of Management and Enterprise, Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Jianming Yong

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  1. Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Hakim Hacid

  2. Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland

    Wojciech Cellary

  3. University of Victoria, Footscray, VIC, Australia

    Hua Wang

  4. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Hye-Young Paik

  5. Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

    Rui Zhou

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Vimalachandran, P., Zhang, Y., Cao, J., Sun, L., Yong, J. (2018). Preserving Data Privacy and Security in Australian My Health Record System: A Quality Health Care Implication. In: Hacid, H., Cellary, W., Wang, H., Paik, HY., Zhou, R. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2018. WISE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11234. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02925-8_8

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