Telematik im Gesundheitswesen

Abstract

There is a long history of telematics in the German health system. Apart from the growing technical possibilities in the field, it is important to concentrate on the protection of health data in telematics applications. Health data in the hands of service providers or other third parties entails certain risks for the patient's personality rights, because these institutions may not be bound by the practice of medical confidentiality. In addition, big data processing risks make the individual lives of patients and insured persons totally transparent. Measures to reduce these risks have to be taken by the providers as well as by the users of telematics infrastructure; they are the ones who should explicitly address the relevant risks and dangers in a data protection and IT-security concept and develop adequate strategies to cope with these dangers. Additionally, the German legislator remains obliged to create a regulatory framework for the protection of patients' rights.

Der intelligente HNO-Operationssaal der Zukunft

“…In the SCOT project, researchers are currently working on the extension entitled "OPe-LINK" [30,32] that opens the system for other manufacturers and standards. In this system, intraoperatively recorded data are available via the server ("client server system") also for postoperative use by third parties (e. g., imaging, surgery times, surgical procedures etc.,), which, however, has to be considered as critical for the European and especially for the German market because of very strict data protection guidelines [39,75,76]. Using those technologies, the Japanese colleagues further develop new applications such as recording treatment protocols and establishing treatment databases, optimized decision making by means of navigation systems, or a precision-guided treatment system.…”