摘要:Security and privacy are two crucial issues in the protection of health information.The purpose is to keep the medical privacy of confidential information about the patient.The successful implementation and application of electronic medical record (EMR),electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) prove to be a difficult task,due to a mixture of technical,organizational and political issues.By analyzing 13,960 citations of 410 articles published in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) and SCI (Science Citation Index) journals about the privacy and security of health information from 2004 to 2013,the author plotted virtual social networks between researchers.The interpretation of result is that privacy and security of health information between 2009-2013 included at least 6 subfields:personal health records,HIPAA privacy rule,authentication,protecting health privacy,encryption and electronic health records.Electronic health information system designer must prevent unauthorized use and hacker attacks.Authentication and cryptographic key management will become the tools of choice for protecting privacy and security.The author combines quantitative bibliometrics and qualitative literature reviews to find out the important articles about security and privacy for health information,and realize the relationship between important topics in this field.When the patients trust in health information network is secure,it would improve the implementation of PHR.The dimension of trust can be divided into trust of physicians and trust of patients.Future researches could adopt "trust” as an independent variable for health information research and to find the relationship between protection of "security and privacy” of PHR and "trust”.
关键词:Security and privacy are two crucial issues in the protection of health information.The purpose is to keep the medical privacy of confidential information about the patient.The successful implementation and application of electronic medical record (EMR),electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) prove to be a difficult task,due to a mixture of technical,organizational and political issues.By analyzing 13,960 citations of 410 articles published in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) and SCI (Science Citation Index) journals about the privacy and security of health information from 2004 to 2013,the author plotted virtual social networks between researchers.The interpretation of result is that privacy and security of health information between 2009-2013 included at least 6 subfields:personal health records,HIPAA privacy rule,authentication,protecting health privacy,encryption and electronic health records.Electronic health information system designer must prevent unauthorized use and hacker attacks.Authentication and cryptographic key management will become the tools of choice for protecting privacy and security.The author combines quantitative bibliometrics and qualitative literature reviews to find out the important articles about security and privacy for health information,and realize the relationship between important topics in this field.When the patients trust in health information network is secure,it would improve the implementation of PHR.The dimension of trust can be divided into trust of physicians and trust of patients.Future researches could adopt "trust” as an independent variable for health information research and to find the relationship between protection of "security and privacy” of PHR and "trust”.