An Organizational Framework of Personal Health Records for Social Networks

This work proposes an organizational framework for creating a community to share personal health record (PHR) information in the form of a Health Records Social Network (HRSN). The work builds upon existing social network community concepts as well as the existing Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) model used by the medical community and introduces a formal model for creating such a network. Furthermore, our work also presents the motivation and institutes the theory to normalize the aforementioned formal model. While a dynamic social network will allow sharing of medical data and help enhance awareness within the medical community, concerns will arise regarding the privacy of individual data. We propose effective techniques that lay the groundwork to address these concerns.

Author

• Hasan, Syed Omair

Language

• en

Keyword

• Social Networks
• Personal Health Records
• Electronic Medical Records
• Medical Informatics

Date created

• 2009

Type of Work

• Dissertation

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Computer Science

Degree

• D.Sc.

Advisor

• Rotenstreich, Shmuel

Committee Member(s)

• Narahari, Bhagi
• Vora, Poorvi
• Ostchega, Yechiam
• Berkovich, Simon

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/ms35t8795