Symposium Organizers: G. Coatrieux¹, L. Kun²
(1) LaTIM, INSERM U650, Dpt. ITI, GET-ENST Bretagne, gouenou.coatrieux@enst-bretagne.fr

(2) IRM College - National Defense University, KunL@ndu.edu

Saturday, September 2, 2006; 10.45AM-12.15PM

Abstract:
The central piece for healthcare and public health is information. Many benefits and some difficulties have surfaced from the use (and potential use) of information technology in these environments. While telemedicine applications through the use of Internet and the WWW, for example, allow for elder patients to be “visited, diagnosed, treated and managed” from their homes; questions arise regarding: privacy of that information, quality of the services delivered and in general the information assurance process, i.e., authenticity, confidentiality, integrity, availability, and non-repudiation. Society’s benefits within a global health perspective, vary from applications ranging from disease prevention and genetics to surveillance and epidemiologic studies.But, at the frontier between public health which requires medical information sharing, and personal health,stands patient privacy. This mini-symposium aims at debating about critical issues to be considered between the needs for medical information (HER/EMR/CPR) sharing and assurance within the healthcare and the other critical infrastructures. Invited speakers will present the technical challenges introduced by the information security and assurance aspects of the healthcare and public health environment. This special session will be concluded by a panel discussion that will associate the technical issues presented to the: social, economic, political and ethical issues that drive policy and its implications.

Topics for discussion include: Some common definitions, i.e., electronic health records (HER), electronic patient records (EPR) and computer based patient records (CPR); advantages and disadvantages of electronic health records; how can emerging technologies improve the quality of life while decreasing costs; integration of lifetime health records; privacy versus public health; information assurance and medical information systems; privacy and HIPAA, sharing records, etc.