Increased security seems to be on the mind of everyone this year. The President made promises to increase Cybersecurity in his State of the Union Address. President Obama’s budget calls for the strengthening of government cybersecurity while reducing overall information technology spending by more than a half-billion dollars. The document provides a roadmap to the administration’s [...]
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On May 31, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights proposed a new rule recommending that patients have the right to ask for a report on who has accessed their medical records. The recommendation has been out for public comment since that time. A number of healthcare organizations including the Medical Group [...] It appears that the health care industry lacks understanding of basic information technology security. Dr David Lee Scher, MD, just wrote an article for the Healthcare IT and Technology blog outlining five things healthcare providers should know about electronic health care record security. From his article, it is obvious that health care workers could use some [...] Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. She has been working with a concept called Privacy by Design for over 20 years. The idea is that Privacy should be designed into systems from the beginning, not added as an afterthought. Systems designers should [...] Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ recent notice of proposed rulemaking on accounting of disclosures introduces a valuable privacy tool for individuals—the access report. The HIPAA Security Rule’s information system activity review specification [164.308(a)(1)] requires organizations to “implement procedures to regularly review records of information system activity, such as audit logs, access reports, [...] The Health IT Policy Committee on June 8 accepted a recommendation that all organizations participating in the Nationwide Health Information Network initiative (NwHIN) should use digital certificates that meet the same authentication standards already required for federal agencies. Ultimate approval for the recommendation falls on the Department of Health and Human Services. One of the main motivations [...] The Department’s Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) provides leadership for the development and nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology (HIT) infrastructure. ONC is charged with guiding the nationwide implementation of interoperable HIT to reduce medical errors, improve quality, produce greater value for health care expenditures, ensure that patients’ individually identifiable health information is [...] Last week, I summarized the Health and Human Services Health Information Technology Policy Committee Privacy and Security Tiger Team (Tiger Team)’s findings. As a reminder, their charge was to “make short-term and long term recommendations to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) on privacy and security policies and practices that well help build public trust in health [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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