Hospitals, medical practices and healthcare organizations are implementing new technologies at breakneck speed. Yet privacy and security considerations are often an afterthought, putting healthcare organizations at risk of data security and privacy issues, fines, damage to their reputations, with serious potential consequences for the patients. Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) consist of clinical notes, patient listings, lab results, imaging results and screening tests. EHRs are growing in complexity over time and requiring increasing amounts of data storage.

• Part I: Technological developments in healthcare
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Introduction to healthcare information privacy and security concerns
• Chapter 3: Fundamentals of health-care system and general rules for security and privacy
• Chapter 4: Identity and access management systems
• Chapter 5: Application design for privacy and security in healthcare
• Chapter 6: Sustainable future IoT services with touch-enabled handheld devices
• Part II: Healthcare models, solutions, and security standards
• Chapter 7: Existing enabling technologies and solutions to maintain privacy and security in healthcare records
• Chapter 8: Healthcare models and algorithms for privacy and security in healthcare records
• Chapter 9: Information security and privacy in healthcare records: threat analysis, classification, and solutions
• Chapter 10: Safety measures for EHR systems
• Chapter 11: Protection framework and safety standards related to electronic health records
• Chapter 12: Security and privacy issues in UK healthcare
• Part III: The role of blockchain to maintain security and privacy in healthcare
• Chapter 13: Blockchain-based health information privacy protection
• Chapter 14: The importance of healthcare information privacy through blockchain
• Chapter 15: Enhancement of health-care services using blockchain with data authentication and protection
• Chapter 16: Blockchain-powered healthcare insurance system
• Chapter 17: Conclusion