Associating eHealth Policies and National Data Privacy Regulations
This work addresses privacy concerns in eHealth for policymakers and healthcare providers, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to analyze policy-regulatory links.
The study evaluated associations between eHealth system policies and national data privacy regulations, finding weak to zero correlations using statistical tests and validating results with a decision tree model.
As electronic data becomes the lifeline of modern society, privacy concerns increase. These concerns are reflected by the European Union's enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), one of the most comprehensive and robust privacy regulations globally. This project aims to evaluate and highlight associations between eHealth systems' policies and personal data privacy regulations. Using bias-corrected Cramer's V and Thiel's U tests, we found weak and zero associations between e-health systems' rules and protections for data privacy. A simple decision tree model is trained, which validates the association scores obtained