%0 Journal Article %T Health Information Security in Hospitals: the Application of Security Safeguards %A Esmaeil Mehraeen %A Haleh Ayatollahi %A Maryam Ahmadi %J Archive of "Acta Informatica Medica". %D 2016 %R 10.5455/aim.2016.24.47-50 %X A hospital information system has potentials to improve the accessibility of clinical information and the quality of health care. However, the use of this system has resulted in new challenges, such as concerns over health information security. This paper aims to assess the status of information security in terms of administrative, technical and physical safeguards in the university hospitals %K Information security %K Hospital information system %K Health information technology %K security %K safeguard %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789743/