Keyose Blog - Personal Health Records

Because PHRs store sensitive personal health data, it is critical to develop reliable and trustworthy mechanisms to ascertain the identity of anyone accessing the information. Health information has several characteristics that make it even more sensitive than similar access to bank accounts and lines of credit, because someone who loses money through inappropriate access can be made financially whole. Someone who loses control of sensitive health data, by contrast, can never arrange to have that information returned to a purely private sphere. From Connecting for Health

Even the banking electronic systems, argued to be the most secure ones and used as an example of people’s trust, are not 100% secure. As can be read in New York Times: Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with stealing more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, cracking what officials said on Tuesday appeared to be the largest hacking and identity theft ring ever exposed. What is the value of your personal health information? Just think about…