Achieving data security and privacy across healthcare applications using cyber security mechanisms

Abstract

Purpose

Currently, in the health-care sector, information security and privacy are increasingly important issues. The improvement in information security is highlighted in adopting digital patient records based on regulation, providers’ consolidation, and the growing need to exchange information among patients, providers, and payers.

Design/methodology/approach

Big data on health care are likely to improve patient outcomes, predict epidemic outbreaks, gain valuable insights, prevent diseases, reduce health-care costs and improve analysis of the quality of life.

Findings

In this paper, the big data analytics-based cybersecurity framework has been proposed for security and privacy across health-care applications. It is vital to identify the limitations of existing solutions for future research to ensure a trustworthy big data environment. Furthermore, electronic health records (EHR) could potentially be shared by various users to increase the quality of health-care services. This leads to significant issues of privacy that need to be addressed to implement the EHR.

Originality/value

This framework combines several technical mechanisms and environmental controls and is shown to be enough to adequately pay attention to common threats to network security.

Citation

Zhu, S., Saravanan, V. and Muthu, B. (2020), "Achieving data security and privacy across healthcare applications using cyber security mechanisms", The Electronic Library, Vol. 38 No. 5/6, pp. 979-995. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-07-2020-0219