Ruotsalainen, Pekka and Blobel, Bernd (2020) Health Information Systems in the Digital Health Ecosystem-Problems and Solutions for Ethics, Trust and Privacy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 17 (9): 3006. ISSN , 1660-4601
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Digital health information systems (DHIS) are increasingly members of ecosystems, collecting, using and sharing a huge amount of personal health information (PHI), frequently without control and authorization through the data subject. From the data subject's perspective, there is frequently no guarantee and therefore no trust that PHI is processed ethically in Digital Health Ecosystems. This results in new ethical, privacy and trust challenges to be solved. The authors' objective is to find a combination of ethical principles, privacy and trust models, together enabling design, implementation of DHIS acting ethically, being trustworthy, and supporting the user's privacy needs. Research published in journals, conference proceedings, and standards documents is analyzed from the viewpoint of ethics, privacy and trust. In that context, systems theory and systems engineering approaches together with heuristic analysis are deployed. The ethical model proposed is a combination of consequentialism, professional medical ethics and utilitarianism. Privacy enforcement can be facilitated by defining it as health information specific contextual intellectual property right, where a service user can express their own privacy needs using computer-understandable policies. Thereby, privacy as a dynamic, indeterminate concept, and computational trust, deploys linguistic values and fuzzy mathematics. The proposed solution, combining ethical principles, privacy as intellectual property and computational trust models, shows a new way to achieve ethically acceptable, trustworthy and privacy-enabling DHIS and Digital Health Ecosystems.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | FUZZY-LOGIC; BIG DATA; MODEL; PHEALTH; CARE; MANAGEMENT; ethics; privacy; trust; models; ethical design; computational privacy; fuzzy logic |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Zentren des Universitätsklinikums Regensburg > eHealth Competence Center |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2021 12:51 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2021 12:51 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/44645 |
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