Patient's Electronic Environment Information Rights

Background and Aim : Electronic health record is one of the most important achievements of the eHealth to achieve a patient-centered care. The aim of the patient-centered care is accessibility of all patient information to clinicians to have the best decisions for the patients. Creating an environment for sharing information and developing e-health information caused the security and privacy of health information of patients to become an important and challenging issue. In this regard, it is necessary to healthcare organizations to create the security solution in order to protect the rights of their patients. Materials and Methods : This review is based on the library research and Internet searches in the major databases such as Web of science, Emerald, Proquest, EBSCO host research, PubMed and search engines like Google and Google Scholar. In this review, essays, books in the field of medical informatics and security of information systems in the health system have been studied. Ethical Considerations : Publication of the results is carried out without bias, honestly and by citing the original reliable resources and references. Findings : In this review, how to maintain information security programs and health information systems in addition to improving quality of care to achieve three main objectives related to security, including confidentiality, accuracy, and the availability around three core axes of administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, and technical safeguards are discussed. Conclusion : The health centers should be consistent in four main areas standards, rules and policies related to the contribution and access to information, communications and operations management, access control and security of human resources including awareness and education of the users about security issues should involve a range of users ranging from therapists to legal and technical experts and always consider the principle of "protecting the rights of patients with convenient access to patient information" in order to develop their own security and development of programs. Citation : Karami M. Patient's Information Rights: Strategies for Information Security in the Electronic Environment. Bioeth Health Law J. 2017; 1(2):9-12.