Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“A contract stating that a practice owns the patient data entered and stored on a Web-based electronic medical record may not guarantee that the practice can control how the data are used or accessed.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“One reason why encryption is not more broadly used in healthcare is that so many organizations lack an updated risk assessment that identifies the role the technology can play in improving security, says attorney Amy Leopard.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“While data security breaches at big healthcare organizations capture most of the media attention, small medical practices are actually more vulnerable to data losses and theft, according to a Kroll Fraud Solutions report cited in American Medical News.
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Mobile Health Live
“The UK’s NHS has published guidance that warns staff not to store sensitive patient data on tablet devices. The advice is from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the body which looks after the organisation’s IT infrastructure. According to The Guardian, the CfH has published a good practice guide that says tablet technology is less secure than traditional alternatives.
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Laura B. Smith, HIT Community
“Of the many features that cloud-based EHR systems tout (like removing paperwork and helping you achieve meaningful use), one of the most important is security. Most on-site EHRs do not prompt physicians to encrypt their data, for example, while it is common practice in the cloud.
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Chelsea Conaboy, Boston Globe
“Despite the challenge of getting new systems off the ground, it’s clear that electronic health records are a powerful tool. They could save the American health care system billions of dollars by reducing unnecessary tests.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“One key reason why encryption isn’t more widely used in healthcare is that some information technology specialists have outdated perceptions about the technology, contends security expert Melodi Mosely Gates.
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Morse R et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
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Electronic health records provide access to an unprecedented amount of clinical data for research that can accelerate the development of effective medical practices. However it is important to protect patient confidentiality, as many medical conditions are stigmatized and disclosure could result in personal and/or financial loss.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“The Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing entitled “Your Health and Your Privacy: Protecting Health Information in a Digital World” on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology presented testimony (video below).
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Lisa Phifer, SearchHealthIT
“Mobility can improve the quality and cost of health care, from care-giver access to electronic health record (EHR) systems to more accurate order fulfillment and asset tracking. But it is imperative that health care organizations safeguard mobile devices and the sensitive regulated data they may carry. Here we explore mobile security best practices for the smartphones and tablets used by health care professionals.
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Digital Journal
“Merck Canada today announced an agreement with MiHealth Global Systems Inc. to promote to Canadian doctors a mobile patient health record (PHR) system that involves doctors in the validation of patient health information. Its high level of security, along with this validation, means the mihealth™ system provides accuracy and credibility, without compromising patient privacy, so the data can be useful to all health professionals as well as patients and their families.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“After years of using pagers, and constantly waiting on return calls, physicians now consider texting to be an efficient and fast way to connect with colleagues.
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John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“Sometimes one needs to have both a Digital Signature and protect the content with Document Encryption. The Digital Signature (DSG) content profile from IHE provides the Digital Signature.
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Adesina AO et al, South African Journal of Science, 107(9/10)
The sensitivity of health-care information and its accessibility via the Internet and mobile technology systems is a cause for concern in these modern times. The privacy, integrity and confidentiality of a patient’s data are key factors to be considered in the transmission of medical information for use by authorised health-care personnel. Mobile communication has enabled medical consultancy, treatment, drug administration and the provision of laboratory results to take place outside the hospital.
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Amit Trivedi, EMR and EHR
“We all know there is no such thing as perfect security. All we can do is try to mitigate as many risks as possible. In this regard, there are areas related to information security that the current ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 (commonly referred to as meaningful use) certification testing does not yet address and that the health IT community should be aware of when implementing systems.
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Ruby Raley, AxWay
“However, unified identity management is a complex problem and, the only way to really tackle this issue is to boil it down to the essential elements required for complying with the regulations.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“An integrated delivery system in Connecticut is taking the extraordinary step of encrypting its clinical databases before launching an ambitious health information exchange effort.
Hartford Healthcare, owner of Hartford Hospital and numerous other facilities, sees its internal HIE effort as the way to become a “truly integrated” delivery system, says John DeStefano, director of software development and integration.
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David Ormesher, The Difference Makers
“You know all those shiny iPads in the hands of doctors? The ones that are used during office visits, replacing the old paper charts? Now that doctors are embracing Electronic Health Records and working overtime to ensure that they can prove Meaningful Use, we’ve introduced a new unintended consequence. We’ve introduced another opportunity for the compromise of sensitive patient records.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“When it comes to qualifying for HITECH Act electronic health record incentive payments, Fallon Clinic is a trailblazer. It’s also leading the way in its EHR security initiatives designed to protect patient privacy.
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Shin D et al, International Perspectives in Health Informatics, 2011
Simulation approaches on data encryption techniques to improve health care decision making processes are presented in this paper. Database-as-a-Service model (DAS) was utilised to employ the databases and related records for the scenarios selected. Data that was used for the simulation process ranged from 10,000 to 2 million records.
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