Computer security: a necessary element of integrated information systems.

AUTOR(ES)

Butzen, F

RESUMO

The Matheson Report sees the medical library as playing a key role in a network of interlocking information bases that will extend from central repositories of medical information to each physician's personal records. It appears, however, that the role of security in this vision has not been fully delineated. This paper discusses problems in maintaining the security of confidential medical information, the state of the applicable law, and techniques for security (with special emphasis on the UNIX operating system). It is argued that the absence of security threatens any plan to build an information network, as there will be resistance to any system that may give intruders access to confidential data.

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