While efforts are underway to create a sound system of electronic health records in Palestinian health institutions, there remain obstacles and challenges. Given modern day demands on health systems, we propose a federated electronic health system based on the clinical document architecture (CDA) that is compliant within the Palestine context. This architecture also brings a normalized electronic health record and a structure of blockchain to enhance interoperability with scalability, fault tolerance, privacy, and security. The new architecture and technologies will enhance services by allowing health care players, patients, and others to have the opportunity to obtain improved access and control of their health services. This may also serve as a useful model for other low-middle income countries.

Health informatics has been reported to be a vital sector for the last decade. Many efforts have been implemented to better utilize advancements in health informatics in real life. Educational institutions have worked hard to enhance their programs to develop or incorporate health informatics. However, in Palestine, this field is not widely deployed in health care delivery institution or in educational institutions. One key element of Health Informatics is electronic health records, for which privacy and security are very important factors. The paper proposes a case based learning method in teaching privacy and security issues for Information Technology students. The paper proposes the use of mini case studies instead of a single cases study, each of the mini cases studies concentrates on a set of learning outcomes. Hence, these mini case studies will enable us to better fulfill learning outcomes. The paper firstly describes the selected mini case studies for Privacy and Security issues in health informatics, then, it deeply details the development of a complete case study called applying data security techniques over sensitive Drug management/traceability data, which enables students to gain essential skills to protect the privacy of patients and security of drug data. These case studies will be evaluated once they are implemented and results will be reported after that.

The notion of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and healthcare Information Technologies (HITs) have recently been adopted by many countries. EHRs facilitate sharing of patients' data among healthcare providers, improve patient safety, and reduce healthcare delivery costs. However, many healthcare providers are unable to use EHRs and related HITs, as they lake the competencies and skills necessary to use them. To overcome this gap, many initiatives have proposed, in different countries, on one hand to train healthcare providers to effectively use EHRs and on another to integrate the required EHR competencies and skills with undergraduate curricula. HiCure is a European Erasmus+ project that aims to develop competency-based health informatics pathways that can be integrated within undergraduate curricula of IT and healthcare programs. This paper presents a case study-based approach, developed in HiCure, to instill the required skills for more applied effective understanding and use of EHRs in undergraduate multidisciplinary education. It utilises real-life EHR notion and its corresponding HITs, exposes students to real-life situations, for more effective comprehension of related uses, issues, intricacies and challenges for improved educational learning outcomes.