Privacy Issues in Electronic Medical Records: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Background: Recently, there has been a great development in healthcare services, and in the future, it is expected to evolve even more. The incorporation of the latest technologies, such as modern sensors, networks and cloud computing, has revolutionized the traditional healthcare system, one of the most important of these Updates electronic medical records that are a substitute for paper records. Objectives: This paper presents a systematic study of the recent literature on privacy issues faced by electronic medical records (EMR), through which we provide a comprehensive review, analysis and synthesis of research published in the past five years. Methodology: We collected relevant literature published between 2016 and 2021 and reviewed the approved issues, research problems, manuscript scopes, research methodologies, and main findings. 29 studies yielded our final extracted cohort. Conclusions: Using the objective analysis of the extracted cohort, we present a research typology that summarizes the major EMR privacy issues of relevant recent research in this field.