Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives

In order to tackle the issue of privacy concern over the personal information management system, this paper begins with the gathering of views on information privacy and how culture has influenced among several Asian countries including India, Thailand, Japan, China and Malaysia. In accordance to th...

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Main Authors: Samsuri, Suhaila, Ismail, Zuraini, Ahmad, Rabiah
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Language:English
Published: International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press 2013
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spelling iium-364452015-10-29T16:17:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/36445/ Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives Samsuri, Suhaila Ismail, Zuraini Ahmad, Rabiah T10.5 Communication of technical information In order to tackle the issue of privacy concern over the personal information management system, this paper begins with the gathering of views on information privacy and how culture has influenced among several Asian countries including India, Thailand, Japan, China and Malaysia. In accordance to the culture dimension theory of Hofstede, it attempts to reveal the perception and concern of several Asian countries towards the privacy of their personal medical information. The previous studies found that Asian communities have a distinctive concept in perceiving the value of information privacy, which is completely unique from the description set by western countries. The findings are considered as valuable and usable in designing the patient’s electronic medical record (EMR) system in hospital information system (HIS) with the incorporation of privacy preservation elements. International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press 2013-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36445/1/228-W0010.pdf Samsuri, Suhaila and Ismail, Zuraini and Ahmad, Rabiah (2013) Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives. International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering, 2 (4). pp. 468-472. ISSN 2010-3743 http://www.ijcce.org/papers/228-W0010.pdf 10.7763/IJCCE.2013.V2.228
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Samsuri, Suhaila
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Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives
description In order to tackle the issue of privacy concern over the personal information management system, this paper begins with the gathering of views on information privacy and how culture has influenced among several Asian countries including India, Thailand, Japan, China and Malaysia. In accordance to the culture dimension theory of Hofstede, it attempts to reveal the perception and concern of several Asian countries towards the privacy of their personal medical information. The previous studies found that Asian communities have a distinctive concept in perceiving the value of information privacy, which is completely unique from the description set by western countries. The findings are considered as valuable and usable in designing the patient’s electronic medical record (EMR) system in hospital information system (HIS) with the incorporation of privacy preservation elements.
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author Samsuri, Suhaila
Ismail, Zuraini
Ahmad, Rabiah
author_facet Samsuri, Suhaila
Ismail, Zuraini
Ahmad, Rabiah
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title Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives
title_short Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives
title_full Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives
title_fullStr Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives
title_full_unstemmed Protecting personal medical information: Asian perspectives
title_sort protecting personal medical information: asian perspectives
publisher International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press
publishDate 2013
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