Legal issues associated with the dispersion of healthcare information need to be
identified. With HIPAA (1996)), healthcare organizations are required to keep patient
personally identifiable information secure and private. This means encryption,
access control, audit trails, and data integrity must be insured in the transmission
process (Jagannathan, 2001). Who has rights to the data and who ???owns the data,???
particularly in EHRs? Similarly, there is an issue of trust involved with sharing
medical science and healthcare data, and this is an area ripe for further research.
How can authentication be provided so that others know the source of data is trusted
and how can it be ensured that the data will be edited by a trusted entity? The area
of e-commerce can be a foundation for future research in trust, as well.
Semantic Web technology can function as a foundation for the sharing and searching
of information for the healthcare and medical sciences fields. Because of the intuitive
nature of patient care, the Semantic Web will enable context and meaning to be
applied to medical information, as well as the conveyance of relationships between
data.
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