Privacy Issues in a Psychiatric Context: Applying the ISD Privacy Framework to a Psychiatric Behavioural Monitoring System

Privacy issues are frequently discussed among researchers, practitioners and patients in healthcare. However, psychiatric patients' privacy issues get less attention in Information System Development (ISD), which surely needs more attention. This paper applies Carew & Stapleton's Privacy Framework to Psychiatric Monitoring Systems to identify the issues that are related to monitoring psychiatric patients' behavior. Finding the issues will help system developers produce a privacy-sensitive system that can contribute to the system engineering for international stability. We elaborate on each factor in the framework (physical, social, psychological and informational) and then explain the relationship to the psychiatric context.