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What Make You Sure that Health Informatics Is Secure

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Inclusive Smart Cities and Digital Health (ICOST 2016)

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We show in this poster the various types of threats to information security in health informatics and try identifying the promising technical solutions to addressing these threats. In addition, we contend that information security in health informatics does not rely merely on technical solutions but on a holistic solution incorporating more socio-technical understandings. Though the challenges to adoption of information security controls in health informatics are usually reflected on the technologies’ usability aspect, they are deeply rooted on the socio-technical level involving various human factors such as the gap in the working culture, in the professional language and its implications, and in the understanding of the workflow and the operational mechanisms in the two fields - healthcare and security. We will preliminarily investigate in this poster a promising approach to modelling and measuring the influences from the socio-technical aspect.

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This work is partially funded by the strategical funding from the Center for Cyber and Information Security (ccis.no) to support the research initiative on health and welfare security.

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  1. Norwegian Information Security Laboratory (NISlab) and Center of Cyber and Information Security (CCIS), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Teknologivegen 22, 2815, Gjøvik, Norway

    Bian Yang

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  1. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

    Carl K. Chang

  2. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Lorenzo Chiari

  3. The University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

    Yu Cao

  4. Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Hai Jin

  5. Institut Mines Télécom Paris/CNRS, Paris, France

    Mounir Mokhtari

  6. Institut Mines Télécom, Paris, France

    Hamdi Aloulou

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Yang, B. (2016). What Make You Sure that Health Informatics Is Secure. In: Chang, C., Chiari, L., Cao, Y., Jin, H., Mokhtari, M., Aloulou, H. (eds) Inclusive Smart Cities and Digital Health. ICOST 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9677. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39601-9_40

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