Principles of Information Accountability: An eHealth Perspective

Randike Gajanayake, Tony Sahama and Renato Iannella
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Randike Gajanayake: Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Tony Sahama: Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia
Renato Iannella: Semantic Identity, Brisbane, Australia

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), 2014, vol. 5, issue 3, 40-57

Abstract: Information accountability is seen as a mode of usage control on the Web. Due to its many dimensions, information accountability has been expressed in various ways by computer scientists to address security and privacy in recent times. Information accountability is focused on how users participate in a system and the underlying policies that govern the participation. Healthcare is a domain in which the principles of information accountability can be utilised well. Modern health information systems are Internet based and the discipline is called eHealth. In this paper, the authors identify and discuss the goals of accountability systems and present the principles of information accountability. They characterise those principles in eHealth and discuss them contextually. They identify the current impediments to eHealth in terms of information privacy issues of eHealth consumers together with information usage requirements of healthcare providers and show how information accountability can be used in a healthcare context to address these needs. The challenges of implementing information accountability in eHealth are also discussed in terms of our efforts thus far.

Date: 2014
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