Clinical system security: interim guidelines

Interim guidelines on maintaining security in computerised patient information systems are drawn up to help tackle the pressing short term concerns and are supplementary to existing documentation such as The Handbook of Information Security.

Abstract

The BMA asked Ross Anderson to draw up interim guidelines on\nmaintaining security in computerised patient information systems. We publish\nthem here together with the principles on which they are based. The guidelines\nare designed to help clinicians avoid the most common serious mistakes in\ncomputer security and are being published to stimulate discussion of the\nissues. The principles are discussed fully in "Security in Clinical\nInformation Systems," which is available from the BMA (Dr Fleur Fisher,\nDepartment of Ethics, Science, and Information).