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.
A new report outlining a four-year national strategy for dealing with pandemics and other disasters singles out the important role information technology, especially electronic health records, can play.
The report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "National Health Security Strategy of the...
A new 60-page white paper offers insights on how to ensure the integrity of patient identifiers used in electronic health records despite the lack of a national standard for such identifiers.
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