Investigating medical patients’ usability with security features in e-health community

Abstract

Advances in computer and communication technologies have made it possible to access healthcare information through the World Wide Web. A wide range of users will received health and medical information using e-health community and use these web-based applications to exchanges information between patients, physicians, family members and others. Security threats come parallel with the growth of technology and communication such as contents of transmissions may be transmitted without authorization to third party. This health information may contain sensitive or confidential patient’s information. As a result, all e-health community need to consider some security issues such as privacy, confidentiality, integrity, access control and others in order to provide a secured space for the patient to share their health information with others.