Digitization of healthcare sector: A study on privacy and security concerns

The digital revolution has taken business sectors to a new height through the advancement of technology. The healthcare sector also embraced digital technology to facilitate technological change from mechanical and analogue electronic devices to the digital technology that is available today. The common use of digital technology in the healthcare sector includes searching medical knowledge resources, monitoring quality patient care and improving clinical support. The article presents the impact of technology in healthcare along with the privacy and security concerns related to technology use in healthcare. & COPY; 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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The digital revolution has greatly impacted the healthcare sector by introducing digital technology for searching medical knowledge, monitoring patient care quality, and improving clinical support. However, privacy and security concerns are also raised regarding the use of technology in healthcare.