Telemedicine allows for healthcare services to be delivered electronically through telecommunication technologies. Home telemedicine involves communication between providers and patients in their homes. The document discusses six key concepts for securing home telemedicine: authentication using user IDs and passwords, transport security using video calls and IP addresses, authorization ensuring existing patient-provider relationships, access control through patient flags and data types, auditing of computer access logs, and physical security with biometric locks for servers containing clinical data. Computer security for home telemedicine involves managing relative risks and benefits as care moves out of hospitals.

1. Telemedicine
Protecting patient’s security
by: Noemi

2. what is telemedicine
 -it is the use of telecommunication and
medical informatics to provide
electronically delivered health care
services.

3. What is home telemedicine
 It involves communication between
healthcare providers and patients in their
home.

4. approaches of home-based
telemedicine

5. SECURITY CONCEPTS OF HOME
TELEMEDICINE
 1. Authentication
 2. Transport Security
 3. Authorization
 4. Access Control
 5.Auditing
 6. Physical Security

6. Authentication
USER ID AND
PASSWORD

7. Transport Security
IP ADDRESS
VIDEO CALL
VITAL SIGNS / BLOOD SUGAR
READING

8. Authorization
1. Patient has an
existing relationship
to CPMC.
2. Patient’s primary
doctor was
credentialed.
3.Patient’s NCM was
an employee.

9. Access control
The system supports
access controls by
patient, patient list,
patient class and
data type. Patient
can be flagged as
“VIP” which is done
for celebrities and
employees.

10. Auditing
Audit logs of
computer access
to clinical data.
Record
information
includes ; User, IP
address, patient,
data type,
access type and
time of access.

11. Physical Security
All servers containing
clinical and evaluation
data are housed in the
main computer facility.
It is physically secured
with biometric access
controlled locks.

12. Computer security is
never absolute. It is
always a matter of
relative risk and relative
benefit. As clinical
computing continues to
move out of the hospital
and into the home,
security solution will
need to continue to
evolve.