Latest issue of UK Health Informatics Today (UKHIT no 58, Winter  2008-09)
Security and Confidentiality Issue

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This issue focuses on matters relating to the security and confidentiality of healthcare data. Nathan Lea, the guest editor, is a Research Fellow in CHIME, UCL and works with the Electronic Healthcare Records Group.  The five contributors to this issue come from a range of professional backgrounds and offer their reflections on what steps are needed to safeguard patient information. These range from practical measures to protect information in distributed environments, to the debate about sharing patient data without consent, and musings about the boundaries in public and private in Ancient Greece. The authors would welcome feedback.

Jeannette Murphy
Senior Editor

Table of Contents:

• Introducing a UKHIT Special Issue: Security and Confidentiality by Jeannette Murphy, Senior Research Fellow in Health Informatics, CHIME, UCL
• Guest Editorial by Nathan  Lea, Research Fellow, CHIME, UCL
• Some practical considerations for implementing security and confidentiality requirements in distributed environments by Bruce Beckles, e-Science Specialist, University of Cambridge Computing Service
• Rising to the Occasion – Using Knowledge Management to help protect electronic healthcare record information by Nathan Lea, Research Fellow, CHIME, UCL
• Privacy is Paramount by Dr Ian Brown, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
• The Lay of the Land by Karen Tingay, Postgraduate Research Student, CHIME, UCL
• The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Public and Private in Ancient Greek Healthcare Confidentiality by Marike van Aerde, Research Graduate from the University of Nijmegen
• References and Resources – e-Health: Security and Confidentiality
• UKHIT Diary - Health Informatics Conferences