What make you sure that health informatics is secure

Abstract

We show in this poster the various types of threats to information security in health informatics and try identifying the promising technical solutions to addressing these threats. In addition, we contend that information security in health informatics does not rely merely on technical solutions but on a holistic solution incorporating more socio-technical understandings. Though the challenges to adoption of information security controls in health informatics are usually reflected on the technologies’ usability aspect, they are deeply rooted on the socio-technical level involving various human factors such as the gap in the working culture, in the professional language and its implications, and in the understanding of the workflow and the operational mechanisms in the two fields - healthcare and security. We will preliminarily investigate in this poster a promising approach to modelling and measuring the influences from the socio-technical aspect.