Article: Applying CHAID algorithm to investigate critical attributes of secured interoperable health data exchange Journal: International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (IJEH) 2015 Vol.8 No.1 pp.25 - 50 Abstract: With enhanced interoperability in healthcare environment the exchange of electronic health records (EHRs), both intra and inter organisations, has increased manifold. Sharing of the EHR creates room for illegal disclosures and confidentiality breaches. Interoperable healthcare is a complex system with many independent components. To design a secured framework for such a system, one need to understand the most important security attributes and predict various dependencies among them. The security attributes selected for statistical analysis are taken from the real-time study of patient-doctor relationship existing in any hospital or clinic. Hospitals with functional EHR-systems are the prerequisite of this study. The dependencies in the obtained data are generated through classification technique, chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID). The decision tree obtained is analysed and verified using regression. The paper enabled the identification of the salient feature controlling which would maximally reduce security threats while sharing EHRs in interoperable healthcare environment. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Applying CHAID algorithm to investigate critical attributes of secured interoperable health data exchange

Authors: Shalini Bhartiya; Deepti Mehrotra

Addresses: Institute of Information Technology and Management, GGSIP University, New Delhi 110027, India ' Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract: With enhanced interoperability in healthcare environment the exchange of electronic health records (EHRs), both intra and inter organisations, has increased manifold. Sharing of the EHR creates room for illegal disclosures and confidentiality breaches. Interoperable healthcare is a complex system with many independent components. To design a secured framework for such a system, one need to understand the most important security attributes and predict various dependencies among them. The security attributes selected for statistical analysis are taken from the real-time study of patient-doctor relationship existing in any hospital or clinic. Hospitals with functional EHR-systems are the prerequisite of this study. The dependencies in the obtained data are generated through classification technique, chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID). The decision tree obtained is analysed and verified using regression. The paper enabled the identification of the salient feature controlling which would maximally reduce security threats while sharing EHRs in interoperable healthcare environment.

Keywords: CHAID; chi-squared automatic interaction detection; classification; patient confidentiality; EHRs; electronic health records; interoperability; privacy; EHR security; information sharing; EHR exchange; interoperable healthcare; electronic healthcare; e-healthcare; patient-doctor relationship.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2015.071638

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 2015 Vol.8 No.1, pp.25 - 50

Received: 07 Jun 2014
Accepted: 13 Dec 2014
Published online: 08 Sep 2015 *

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