Academic Publications: Healthcare IT & Ops
The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft
M. Eric Johnson
Springer, March 2012
Center director Eric Johnson and Indiana University computer scientist Jean Camp reveal the business models of identity thieves and examine potential solutions for organizations and consumers. Financial identity theft is well understood with clear underlying motives. Medical identity theft is new and presents a growing problem. The solutions to both problems however, are less clear. The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft discusses how the digital networked environment is critically different from the world of paper, eyeballs and pens. The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft also presents an overview of the current technology for identity management. The book closes with a series of vignettes in the last chapter, looking at the risks we may see in the future and how these risks can be mitigated or avoided. More ›
Topics: Healthcare IT & Ops, Identity Theft
Medication Administration Quality and Health Information Technology: National Study of US Hospitals
Ajit Appari, Denise Anthony, M. Eric Johnson, Emily Carian
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of data from three sources: CPOE/eMAR usage from HIMSS Analytics (2010), medication quality scores from CMS Hospital Compare (2010), and hospital characteristics from CMS Acute Inpatient Prospective Payment System (2009). The analysis focused on 11 quality indicators (January–December 2009) at 2603 medium-to-large (≥100 beds), non-federal acute-care hospitals measuring proportion of eligible patients given (or prescribed) recommended medications for conditions, including acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia, and surgical care improvement. More ›
Topics: Healthcare IT & Ops
Usability Failures and Healthcare Data Hemorrhages
M. Eric Johnson, Nicholas D. Willey
IEEE Security & Privacy
Data leaks are often the result of usability failures. In healthcare, usability failures risk both patients' health and their identity. In this article, the authors analyze samples of medical-related files collected from peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. These leaked files contained significant protected health information and demonstrate the risk to patients and institutions. Through interviews and field research, they document how usability failures lead to such hemorrhages. More ›
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Topics: Data, Healthcare IT & Ops
Information Security Risk and Privacy in Healthcare: Current State of Research
M. Eric Johnson, Ajit Appari
International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 6(4), pp. 279-314, 2010
Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance. The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the increasing need for information exchange between patients, providers and payers, all point towards the need for better information security. We critically survey the literature on information security and privacy in healthcare, published in information systems journals as well as many other related disciplines including health informatics, public health, law, medicine, the trade press and industry reports. In this paper, we provide a holistic view of the recent research and suggest new areas of interest to the information systems community.
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Topics: Healthcare IT & Ops, Information Security, Privacy