The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a two-year contract to Accenture to help identify standards and specifications for facilitating secure health information exchange.
Clinics applying for HITECH Act electronic health records incentive payments are getting a reminder about the importance of information security, says Robert Tennant of the Medical Group Management Association
A two-day hearing Feb. 15-16 in Washington will be devoted to discussion of a presidential council's report calling for a universal exchange language for electronic health records.
When it comes to privacy and security, a preliminary set of proposed requirements for future stages of the HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program is light on details.
This week's top news: An in-depth analysis of a presidential council's report that calls for a universal exchange language for electronic health records.
The cost savings can be significant, but cloud computing also promises to help healthcare organizations manage risks and achieve business continuity goals.
On Jan. 14, a new workgroup advising federal regulators dug into the difficult task of figuring out whether a presidential council's recommendations for electronic health record interoperability are feasible.
A presidential council's call for creation of a universal exchange language based on XML as a way to make electronic health records systems interoperable and ease the secure exchange of data is overly simplistic and impractical, some critics say.
Healthcare privacy and security issues rose to the forefront in 2010 thanks, in large part, to the HITECH Act, which led to many new regulations as well as a public list of major health information breaches.
A recently released presidential council report, while raising important issues, oversimplifies the challenges involved in securely exchanging health information, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president for informatics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
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