Abstract
Privacy issues are frequently discussed amongst researchers, practitioners and patients in healthcare. However, psychiatric patients’ privacy issues get less attention in information system development (ISD), whereby they are one of the most important stakeholders. This paper applies Carew and Stapleton’s ISD privacy framework to psychiatric monitoring systems to understand the issues that are related to monitoring psychiatric patients’ behaviour. By understanding the privacy issues amongst patients, the research will be able to provide guidance to system developers to produce a privacy-sensitive system that can contribute to the system engineering for international stability. We will elaborate each factor in the framework (physical, social, psychological and informational) and then explain the relationship to the privacy of psychiatric patient.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Altman I (1975) The environment and social behavior. California, Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Inc., Belmont, California
Altman I, Chemers M (1986) Culture and environment. Cambridge university press, Cambridge
Bernama (2010) Personal data protection act commission up by January. The Sun Daily
Carew P, Stapleton L (2005a) Towards a privacy framework for information systems development. In: Vasilecas O, Caplinskas A, Wojtkowski G, Wojtkowski W, Zupancic J, Wrycza S (eds) Information systems development. Springer, US, pp 77–88
Carew PJ, Stapleton L (2005b) Privacy, patients and healthcare workers. In: Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress. Prague, Elsevier
Keyes CLM (2005) Mental illness and/or mental health? Investigating axioms of the complete state model of health. J Consult Clin Psychol 73:539–548
Kosseim P, Emam KE (2009) Privacy interests in prescription data, part I: prescriber privacy. IEEE Secur Priv 7:72–76
Lauber C, Nordt C, Falcato L, Rosseler W (2004) Factors influencing social distance toward people with mental illness. Community Ment Health 40(3):265–274
Leong FC, Bakar HJA (2010) Personal Data Protection Act 2010. Legal- Herald. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill.
Michael J (1994) Privacy and human rights. Biddles Ltd, Guilford and King’s Lynn, United Kingdom.
Pedersen DM (1999) Model for types of privacy by privacy functions. J Environ Psychol 19:397–405
Personal Data Protection Bill (No 1) (2009) (Cth)
Rattanapongpaisan J (2001) Impact of cultural differences on privacy and security concerns of internet users. Accounting. MSc thesis, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.
Sarabdeen J, Ishak, MMM (2008) E-health data privacy: how far is protected. Communications of the IBIMA (CIBIMA), Vol 1
Selvaratnam S (2010) Keeping it private. The Star Publications, Malaysia
Tentori M, Favela J (2008) Monitoring behaviorial patterns in hospitals through activity-aware computing. In: Pervasive computing technologies for healthcare, 2008. Pervasive Health 2008. Second international conference. Tampere, IEEE
United Nations (1991) The Protection of Persons with Mental illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care. http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/46/a46r119.htm
Varshney U (2009) Ad hoc networks for health monitoring. Pervasive healthcare computing. Springer, US
Werner CM, Altman I, Qualitis T (1992) A transactional approach to interpersonal relations: physical environment, social context and temporal qualities. J Soc Context Tempor Qual 9:297–322
Westin AF (1967) Privacy and freedom, The Bodley Head Ltd, United Kingdom.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Ramli, R., Zakaria, N. Privacy issues in a psychiatric context: applying the ISD privacy framework to a psychiatric behavioural monitoring system. AI & Soc 29, 203–213 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0476-9
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0476-9