Security Improvements for Better and Safer Cross-Border ePrescription and Patient Summary Services

Katehakis, Dimitrios G.; Pangalos, George; Prentza, Andriana

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“…Here, we focus on the sharing of health-related information across HCOs and even across countries and continents. This is an important use case to improve the secure and efficient delivery of health care across Europe ( 11 , 12 ). Cross-border health care in Europe has been recognized as of 2011 with Directive 2011/24/EU, which established patients' rights to access safe and high-quality health care, including across national borders within the EU, and their right to be reimbursed for such health care ( 13 ).…”

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Emerging and Established Trends to Support Secure Health Information Exchange

Spanakis

Sfakianakis

Bonomi

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Front. Digit. Health

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This work aims to provide information, guidelines, established practices and standards, and an extensive evaluation on new and promising technologies for the implementation of a secure information sharing platform for health-related data. We focus strictly on the technical aspects and specifically on the sharing of health information, studying innovative techniques for secure information sharing within the health-care domain, and we describe our solution and evaluate the use of blockchain methodologically for integrating within our implementation. To do so, we analyze health information sharing within the concept of the PANACEA project that facilitates the design, implementation, and deployment of a relevant platform. The research presented in this paper provides evidence and argumentation toward advanced and novel implementation strategies for a state-of-the-art information sharing environment; a description of high-level requirements for the transfer of data between different health-care organizations or cross-border; technologies to support the secure interconnectivity and trust between information technology (IT) systems participating in a sharing-data “community”; standards, guidelines, and interoperability specifications for implementing a common understanding and integration in the sharing of clinical information; and the use of cloud computing and prospectively more advanced technologies such as blockchain. The technologies described and the possible implementation approaches are presented in the design of an innovative secure information sharing platform in the health-care domain.

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Emerging and Established Trends to Support Secure Health Information Exchange

Spanakis

Sfakianakis

Bonomi

et al. 2021

Front. Digit. Health

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Electronic Medical Record Implementation Challenges for the National Health System in Greece

Katehakis¹

2020

Data Analytics in Medicine

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The purpose of this work is to expose challenges related to the implementation of quality electronic medical record (EMR) systems in public hospitals in Greece, a country where the national health system (NHS) has already acquired electronic medical records (EMRs). The level of EMR implementation, together with organizational maturity at a hospital level, are explored. What is discovered is that there are different adoption levels, not recorded in a systematic manner. The majority of physicians are either reluctant to implement EMRs or do not know options available to them. Implications include not continuous flow of events, cut off of critical information, lower quality of health services, patients not empowered to carry with them clinically significant information, unnecessary repetition of medical procedures and higher costs. It is concluded that focus should be paid on enabling the use of quality, interoperable and secure EMRs to better support medical decision, in an effort to improve the health of the population and to better control costs.

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Digital Transformation Challenges for the Implementation of Quality Electronic Medical Records

Katehakis

Kouroubali

2020

Quality Assurance in the Era of Individualized Medicine

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The purpose of this work is to analyze the digital transformation challenges related to the implementation of quality electronic medical record systems in Greece, within the wider frame of the European digital single market. The authors explore characteristics of quality, interoperable and secure electronic medical records, and provide an overview of the challenges and factors affecting their adoption, implementation, and operation. Key challenges relate to linking electronic medical records with the workflow, building trust and acceptance by making the best use of champions and key stakeholders, and financing the digital transformation transition and sustainability. The foreseen benefits include better support of medical decisions across all stages of the patient pathway, patients empowered to carry with them clinically significant information, fostering research, and unlocking the full potential of vendors to implement innovative tools to support continuity of care.

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Security Improvements for Better and Safer Cross-Border ePrescription and Patient Summary Services

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Emerging and Established Trends to Support Secure Health Information Exchange

Emerging and Established Trends to Support Secure Health Information Exchange

Electronic Medical Record Implementation Challenges for the National Health System in Greece

Digital Transformation Challenges for the Implementation of Quality Electronic Medical Records

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