Future of healthcare vis-a-vis building trust in major stakeholders through Information Security Management

Abstract

The Healthcare sector is growing leaps and bound, so is its data and information. Security and privacy of this Information has become a crucial issue for this proliferating healthcare industry. In this fast moving global scenario, patients need not carry their medical records in a big bag on move, as in this digital world ,all that patients have to do is to get admitted in a hospital for the treatment , rest all is in hands of Information Assets Infrastructure of these mushrooming hospitals. But due to the increased use of patient’s information sharing among doctors, vis hospitals ;patients and their families raise an issue for security of their medical data and records. Hence improving the Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) has become the necessity to keep secure digital patient records for success of hospitals and their brands or at large name and fame of Healthcare Industry. Patients are required to share information with doctors for correct diagnosis and treatment. Security concerns arise, in transmitting and processing electronic medical records, personal healthcare records, patients’ billing records as well as public health alerts across many parties with varying security, privacy and trust levels. Not all hospitals adopt all the essential security measures. In the present paper, we are studying eight International Hospitals to review their Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) standards , concluding their stands on the basis of proposed five principles and also proposing the future scope of implementation of IS in the hospital. We contemplate an Information Security model based on the proposed five principles of Information Security.