Greg Baxter reports:
New standards on information security in the health sector have been issued by the International Organisation for Standards (ISO), an international body composed of representatives from various national standards organisations.
The new guidelines address the increasing use of wireless and internet technologies in healthcare delivery, and the consequent growth of electronic exchange of personal health information between health professionals.
The standard (ISO 27799: 2008) specifies a set of detailed controls for managing health information security and provides health information security best-practice guidelines. By implementing this international standard, healthcare organisations and other custodians of health information will be able to ensure a minimum requisite level of security that is appropriate to their size and circumstances.
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