A four-year, $15 million federally funded research project will yield strategies that hospitals, physicians and others can use to keep electronic health records private and secure, says Carl Gunter, the project's leader says.
Some folks find Health Information Exchanges scary. They raise the notion that as electronic health records are exchanged among clinics, hospitals and others at the local, regional, state and national level, the opportunities for the information winding up in the wrong hands increase. And they have a point. Clearly,...
A four-year, $15 million federally funded research project will yield practical, updated strategies that hospitals, physician group practices and others can use to keep electronic health records private and secure, the project's leader says.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $60 million in economic stimulus funds under the HITECH Act to four universities for healthcare IT research projects, three of which will address privacy and security issues.
The firm that has won a $26 million public relations contract from the Department of Health and Human Services for a campaign on healthcare information technology, and related privacy and security issues, stirred up controversy with some of its previous government PR efforts.
The massive healthcare reform bill that President Obama signed into law March 23 contains hundreds of references to fraud prevention and tougher penalties for those convicted of fraud.
A new report outlines the options for obtaining patient consent for transmitting records via Health Information Exchanges, but it stops short of endorsing an approach.
A federal agency will survey U.S. consumers on their attitudes toward electronic health information exchange and related privacy and security issues.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services announced in the Federal Register March 19...
Building public trust, as called for under a draft of a federal "Health IT Strategic Framework," will require educating healthcare organizations on security compliance as well as tough enforcement of federal regulations, experts say.
The first draft of the framework correctly points out that public trust is vital...
UAB Health System in Birmingham, Ala., is tackling a long list of risk management projects, including updating intrusion detection and prevention systems.
In an interview, Terrell Herzig, HIPAA security officer, outlines priority projects and key lessons learned, including:
Expanding the use of...
The ongoing project to build a National Health Information Network, which amounts to a group of standards for secure data exchange, is expanding to include a "light" version.
The issue of how existing online banking networks could be used to ease the exchange of healthcare information will be addressed at a "medical banking" conference in Atlanta Feb. 28-March 2.
The Medical Banking Institute is sponsored by the HIMSS Medical Banking Project. The Healthcare Information and Management...
Four small, rural hospitals in Texas have come up with a clever way to help each other implement electronic health records, as well as securely exchange patient information.
A new report validates 89 functioning U.S. health information exchanges that serve multiple organizations in a region. In addition to achieving financial viability, key challenges for emerging exchanges include tackling privacy, security and patient consent issues, according to the report.
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