Title: Access control to the electronic health records: a case study of an Algerian health organisation

Authors: Asma Belaidi; Mohammed El Amine Abderrahim

Addresses: Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Technology, University of Tlemcen, Algeria ' Laboratory of Arabic Natural Language Processing, University of Tlemcen, Algeria

Abstract: Accessibility to information resources in health systems is a very important aspect. This article is about the protection of medical data and focused primarily on access control in health information systems. It is therefore a question of proposing a rigorous modelling allowing to take care of all the aspects related to the secure management of electronic health record. We proposed in the first time a model to the management of the electronic health record in the context of an Algerian health organisation. Based on this modelling and by using Or-BAC model, in a second time, we proposed a model of the access control to this electronic health record. The validation of this model using the MotOrBAC tool allowed us a safe passage to an implementable specification. As a result, we develop a set of simple and effective tools to support this aspect.

Keywords: electronic health records; access control; organisation-based access control; Or-BAC; MotOrBAC.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2021.114885

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2021 Vol.13 No.3, pp.181 - 189

Received: 14 Nov 2018
Accepted: 08 Apr 2019
Published online: 11 May 2021 *

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