The Financial
“ISO has published a new technical specification which will increase protection of personal health information processed, stored and transferred by computer systems for subsequent use by clinicians and others in healthcare organizations, according to ISO.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“One of the challenges in connecting the dots in health care – linking together all the fragments of health data about a given patient that is scattered widely across many different settings of care – is trying to match patient identities.
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Rick Kam, Government Health IT
“Forget the hospital dramas on TV. Our top 10 list of this year’s trends in healthcare privacy and security has excitement to rival any show.
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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“The push for electronic health records (EHRs) kicked into high gear in 2010 when providers spent a record breaking $88.6 billion on health IT initiatives based in adopting EHRs. While many are cheering on the movement, others are more hesitant as security concerns emerge.
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Morse R et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
BACKGROUND:
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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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“As part of the process of setting our broader research agenda at Chilmark Research, we do a significant amount of secondary research combined with more limited, but highly focused primary research.
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Steve Dickman, Xconomy
“Even if Obamacare is ultimately upheld, it’s hard to imagine that the government alone is capable of unifying and analyzing all this data through the implementation of electronic health records.
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Jennifer Dennard, Healthcare IT News
“Personal health information and the lack of security surrounding it has caused quite a bit of buzz lately.
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Healthcare IT News
“A study released this week shows that 68 percent of Facebook users have never shared – and never plan to share – personal health information on the social networking site.
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Anne Steciw, Health IT Pulse
“If a health care organization can be fined $4.3 million over an incident involving a mere 41 patient records, imagine what the penalty might be for a health care data breach involving 8.63 million patient records.
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Kathryn Roe, Healthcare Info Security
“The government recently presented the healthcare industry with a different take on the HITECH Act’s accounting of disclosures provision.
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Scott Peppet, The Health Care Blog
“There are all sorts of legal implications to these developments. We have already incorporated sensors into the penal system (e.g., ankle bracelets & alcohol monitors in cars). How will sensors and self-tracking integrate into other legal domains and doctrines? Proving an alibi becomes easier if you’re real-time streaming your GPS-tracked location to your friends.
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Nate Favini, A Stranger in this World
“This is too bad. We need to do a better job of securing medical records. As I’ve argued before, though, we can never completely guarantee that a breach won’t occur. The poor distribution of risk in our health insurance system makes a serious event like this worse. Individuals and employers are stuck with the consequences.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“On May 31, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a proposed change to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The proposed rule would give people the right to get a report on who has electronically accessed their protected health information (PHI).
HHS’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) proposed the change.
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Health Data Management Magazine
“A poll in late March of 4,364 patients finds 29 percent of respondents have withheld certain health information from their physician, 47 percent have not shared certain health information with an employer and 14 percent have withheld information from a health insurer.
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Helen Phung, EHR Bloggers
“Is the sharing of anonymous, de-identified health information is much different? Identifiable patient data is exquisitely sensitive and is protected as such.
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Rick Kam, ID Experts
“Consider for a moment what patient information you send and receive from a wireless device (i.e. smart phone, PDA, iPad, laptop etc.) on a daily basis within your practice. It may include electronic health records you send to another provider to get another opinion or responding to an email from a concerned patient who is describing a health issue.
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The demand on data custodians to disclose health information for secondary purposes is increasing dramatically. These demands come from researchers, public health professionals, commercial actors, and governments. In many jurisdictions, de-identification is one set of methods that can be used to allow the use and disclosure of health information without consent. This report describes the reasons why it is desirable or necessary to de-identify health data before disclosing or using it for secondary purposes.
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Christian Perry, Processor.com
“Technology’s incessant drive toward flexibility and ease of use occasionally brings with it a catch-22. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the medical field, where the continuing implementation of electronic medical records is simultaneously improving patient data management and creating potential security leaks. Although medical records systems are inherently secure for the most part, facilities nonetheless face the constant threat of theft from insiders.
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Christina's Considerations
“NCR got its start in banking, but healthcare is benefiting from their success as hospitals respond to the needs of ePatients and empower them to do more for themselves.
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