A Survey on implementing privacy in Healthcare: An Indian Perspective

Abstract

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."-Marlon Brando Privacy in Healthcare is the practice of maintaining the security and confidentiality of patient records. With the advent of new technologies in healthcare such as EHRs, pharmacogenomics and genome sequencing, etc. the focus on securing the patient's data and identity hasn't been given as much importance. The issues in healthcare privacy stem from a lack of infrastructure, complacency, budget constraints, and politics. The paper explores the issues which plague the healthcare industry in its fight to secure patient data from potential exploitation. Hackers can use this easily attainable healthcare data for profit and identity stealing which is a major concern. In this paper, we have reviewed multiple papers and specified their description along with their inferences, future research, and research gaps. The paper has a strong base of 36 research papers and review papers which are mentioned and cited. Finally, this paper presents solutions on how to mitigate the various issues present to make healthcare data secure and safe from exploitation. The paper limits the study of proposing privacy models in India as a country.