By Debra Fryar, on May 30th, 2011
Last winter, the Health and Human Services Health Information Technology Policy Committee gave the following broad charge to the Privacy and Security Tiger Team (Tiger Team).
The charge is as follows: “The Tiger Team is charged with making short-term and long term recommendations to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) on privacy and security policies and [...]
By Debra Fryar, on May 23rd, 2011
With the National Health Information Network Direct (NHIN Direct) working to create a standard for the transfer of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the need for segmented and secure patient records is becoming apparent to all who are working on this technology. A segmented EHR would allow for providers with different roles to access only the portions [...]