Jonah Comstock, mobihealthnews
“HIPAA is a valve, not a blockage.” At least, that’s what Office of Civil Rights (OCR) director Leon Rodriguez has said about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
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Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Het Landelijke Schakelpunt is op veel punten veiliger dan de huidige systemen. Dat zegt minister Edith Schippers van VWS tijdens een debat vandaag over het de digitale uitwisseling van patiëntgegevens.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“A new Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which seeks developers for short-term technology assignments, includes a project designed to spread the use of the Blue Button medical records secure download function.
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Jeffrey Roman, Healthcare Info Security
“When creating a patient portal that provides access to electronic health records, healthcare organizations must educate patients about the need for authenticating their identities, says Sharp HealthCare CIO Bill Spooner.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The HITECH Act gives consumers the right to access their electronic health records in an electronic format. But many security experts believe that under final rules, giving patients the records on a CD or thumb drive won’t meet the intent of the law, says Lou Ann Wiedemann, director of professional practice resources at the American Health Information Management Association in Chicago.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, Chris Murphy, InformationWeek
“If there’s one thing that’s going to revolutionize healthcare, whether it’s IT, ACOs, or any aspect of health reform, what you’re going to see is patients taking back healthcare from their providers.” That’s the prediction Neil Calman, MD, the CEO and co-founder of the Institute for Family Health, made at InformationWeek Healthcare’s IT Leadership Forum in New York City earlier this month.
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Matt Warman, Telegraph.co.uk
“A London hospital is to begin storing patient data using “cloud” technology.
The new NHS pilot project, where records are kept on the internet rather than on computers in individual hospitals or GP surgeries, could pave the way for all patient data to be stored online rather than on paper.
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Cross M. BMJ, 341:c5913
Patients in England will be able to inspect and correct their NHS and social care records online from 2015 if the coalition government’s vision for the use of IT in the NHS becomes reality.
A strategy paper published on 18 October for consultation says that giving patients control of their records “opens up exciting new possibilities for online health and care services.” However, it is likely to generate new concerns about confidentiality, security, and consent.
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Harley Geiger, CDT
“One of the great promises of health information technology is that it will improve the ability of patients to manage their own care. But patients can’t do this effectively without information about their own health conditions, so patient access to their personal data is critical to unlocking the vast potential of health IT.
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Brenno de Winter, Webwereld
“Burgers krijgen voorlopig geen toegang via internet tot hun EPD. De methodiek van aanmelden blijkt een te groot beveiligingsrisico. Ondertussen is een goed alternatief nog niet voor handen.
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Under the law adopted by its Parliament, the Government of Catalonia has developed an electronic medical record system for its National Health System (NHS). The model is governed by the following principles: 1) The citizen as owner of the data: direct access to his data and right to exercise his opposition’s privileges; 2) Generate confidence in the system: security and confidentiality strength; 3) Shared model of information management: publishing system and access to organized and structured information, keeping in mind that the NHS of Catalonia is formally an “Integrated system of healthcare public use” (catalan acronym: SISCAT) with a wide variety of legal structures within its healthcare institutions; 4) Use of communication standards and catalogs as a need for technological and functional integration. In summary: single system of medical records shared between different actors, using interoperability tools and whose development is according to the legislation applicable in Catalonia and within its healthcare system.
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Deborah C. Peel, Wall Street Journal
“I learned about the lack of health privacy when I hung out my shingle as a psychiatrist. Patients asked if I could keep their records private if they paid for care themselves. They had lost jobs or reputations because what they said in the doctor’s office didn’t always stay in the doctor’s office. That was 35 years ago, in the age of paper. In today’s digital world the problem has only grown worse.
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Cheryl Clark, HealthLeaders Media
“Nearly two-thirds of Americans who answered a phone survey last month said they do not trust the federal government–including the U.S. Health and Human Services Agency–to protect their health record privacy.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“Is withholding information for privacy’s sake the right approach for a problem that should have been solved in the very first stage of designing an EHR? Essential to an EHR is that it holds ALL medical and health related information about a person.
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Robert van Vliet, Computable
“Waarom kan ik mijn patiëntendossier nog steeds niet via een ziekenhuiswebsite inzien? Is dit de wet op de beveiliging van persoonsgegevens, of neemt het ziekenhuis mij tegen mezelf in bescherming?
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Michael Savage, The Independent
“Tory plans to hand medical records to private companies and allow patients to alter their medical histories online risk compromising privacy and preventing doctors from gaining swift access to vital data, medical workers and MPs have warned.
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EMR Specialists
“The Obama administration’s drive to implement electronic health records (EHRs) should have strong identity management tools to ensure privacy and security of the records, members of a panel of providers, vendors and policy experts said today.
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Goedert, Joseph, Health Data Management, 17(6)
This is part two of a three-part series on I.T. security. Part three, on authorization issues, will appear in the December issue.
The Indiana University Health Center in February started offering students the opportunity to create and maintain personal health records via a secure page on the Bloomington-based school’s student Web portal.
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Lisa Acevedo, WTN News
“On February 17, 2009, President Barack H. Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), commonly referred to as the federal stimulus package.
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House of Commons London
“The National Programme for IT is designed to reform the way the NHS in England uses information, and hence to improve services and the quality of patient care. The Programme’s aims are ambitious, and its scale and complexity make delivery more challenging than similar projects elsewhere in the world. The Programme requires substantial organisational and cultural change to be successful and it is dependent on the deployment of systems in an increasingly devolved NHS.
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