A security approach for health care information systems

From the perspective of services to the population, with vast social implications, in which the security, confidentiality, and access to personal data represents a critical region, the medical services and information systems that are on the base of the strategic management in health care systems, are a theme of maximum interest and rather less approached. In particular, the prospect of at-home health care systems for screening and rehabilitation has raised enormous interest and is seen as a new method to approach the disease more efficaciously. With the development of Information Technology and its major breakthroughs in health care information systems, bringing the rehabilitation and monitoring of the elderly patients from in-hospital to more advanced at-home health care systems, information security measures has been raised. A survey of security measures and data communication security involved in health care systems in order to ensure information protection is presented in this paper. The specific security issues involved in the development of a health care system that manages data to support monitoring and rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease is subject of this paper.