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A Holistic Approach To Ehealth Security In Australia: Developing A National Ehealth Sercurity And Access Framework (Nesaf), Yvette Lejins, John Leitch

Australian eHealth Informatics and Security Conference

The Australian ehealth landscape is confronted with new challenges for healthcare providers in appropriately managing and protecting personal health information. The vision of the National eHealth Security and Access Framework (NESAF) is to adopt a consistent approach to the application of health information security standards and provide better practice guidance in relation to eHealth specific security and access practices. The eHealth information security landscape has a number of unique attributes, many that are faced by other business that provide a service or products – but we see that there is no industry in Australia where such widespread changes in the …