A fair amount of attention is appropriately being focused on the need to maintain appropriate access controls on electronic health record systems and other sources containing personal health information. Among the HIPAA privacy provisions that were…
Providing further evidence that the HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is increasingly focused not only on addressing personal privacy concerns related to the use of health IT and health information exchange but also on…
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) seems to be putting privacy protections (along with security) high on its list of priorities as it works to make widespread adoption of health information technology a reality….
There is but a single measure related to security and privacy in the “meaningful use” rules that will be used to determine the eligibility of health care providers to qualify for incentive payments for the adoption…
Most of the major information sharing initiatives under development today are designed with integration patterns that assume that most data will be accessed from the authoritative systems or organizations where it resides, rather than copied to…
A recurring challenge facing efforts to implement interoperable health information exchange solutions is agreeing on a common set of security standards that can be applied to both private and public sector participants in such exchanges. There…
With the rapidly approaching March 1 deadline when Massachusetts’ new personal data protection law (201 CMR 17) finally goes into effect, one of many requirements facing organizations covered by the law is the need to encrypt…
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