Medical Data in the Digital Era - Legal Challenges Related to Providing Information Security, Applying GDPR and Respecting the Professional Secrecy
Krzysztof Świtała · 2023
The processing of medical data in electronic form poses many challenges in terms of the security of these resources and ensuring patient privacy. This paper presents new dimensions of healthcare data processing, such as EHR, eHealth, mHealth, IoT or Big Data, in the perspective of the challenges of enforcing legal regulations to ensure the security of such healthcare information resources while also guaranteeing cross-border interoperability of these solutions. The technical and organizational measures applied by the controllers, as well as the legal requirements, should be consistent and comprehensive, considering not only the challenges related to the protection of personal data, but also cybersecurity and the protection of professional secrets in health care. In this context, ensuring the integrity and availability of information is also important as protecting its confidentiality.