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A lot can be learned from the work done by how individual state health information exchanges (HIEs) deal with policy, contract and technical requirements and one specific area of interest is Health Information Service Provider (HISP)-to-HISP communication. In a recent more »
BOSTON – A health information exchange (HIE) such as the Michigan Health Connect (MHC) has been running smoothly and expanding since its inception in 2009. But one potential hurdle for HIEs in the future could be patient decisions to restrict their more »
BOSTON – Healthcare organizations are undoubtedly moving toward using large data sets to learn more about patients and become more efficient in patient care. Many are part of health information exchanges (HIEs) or accountable care organizations (ACOs) as part of more »
Last week, MedAllies CEO John Blair, MD, was elected chair of DirectTrust.org, which concentrates on secure health information exchange (HIE) between providers and patients. DirectTrust’s direction going forward is of great interest in the healthcare industry because of the Office of the more »
After months of working with stakeholders to develop conditions for trust exchange, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has finally released its framework for governing for trusted health information exchange, the Governance Framework for Trusted more »
The process of sharing protected health information (PHI) is wrought with many challenges. Entities covered under HIPAA and its recent update in the omnibus rule have the legal responsibility to safeguard PHI by putting the right policies, procedures, and agreements more »
A new case study published by the Commonwealth Fund demonstrates how the Colorado Beacon Consortium (CBC), one of the 17 communities selected by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) through its Beacon Community Program, handles more »
Centered around the Health IT Policy Committee and the Privacy and Security Tiger Team’s guidance and recommendations, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will soon provide its own voluntary health data exchange security strategies. Farzad more »
It’s an important time for the Massachusetts state HIE (MassHIWay), as it numbers are growing and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) will start sending 50,000 patient encounter records per week over the next few weeks. BIDMC will send these more »
In a proposed rule similar to another presented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is proposing to extend the exception for donors of electronic health record (EHR) systems (i.e., safe more »
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced today that it has awarded DirectTrust.organd the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, led by New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), each Exemplar HIE Government Program Cooperative Agreements. Though NYeC will mainly focus on more »
TriRivers Health Partners agreed to a deal back in October 2012 with RSA, EMC’s security division, to augment its security architecture, but there is value in taking time to integrate these types of products into current security environments. HealthITSecurity.com caught up with more »
Throughout the week-long HIMSS13 conference that recently took place in New Orleans, there were new healthcare technologies from around the country being put on display and each vendor was attempted to better the one beside it. But one of the more »
Creating interoperability standards is a common goal in healthcare IT, especially with health information exchange (HIE) gaining significance in the industry, but how does security fit into the picture? Eric Heflin, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Texas Health Services Authority more »
The Privacy and Security Tiger Team met yesterday to finalize its next round of query and response discussions for Health Information Exchange (HIE) and came away closer to having recommendations prepared for the April HIT Policy Committee meeting. The team more »
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a new rural health information exchange (HIE) toolkit last week and included within it were privacy and security requirements for organizations participating in an HIE. Healthcare organizations should be more »
When looking at future Office for Civil Rights (OCR) privacy and security audits, it’s important to focus not on 2013, but 2014 after the HIPAA omnibus rule has gone into effect. The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a federally-recognized, more »
NEW ORLEANS — The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, M.D., announced today at HIMSS13 that the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) is planning to accelerate health information exchange (HIE) and work toward secure data flow. more »
Outgoing Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) CIO Roger W. Baker provided testimony last week on the VA and Department of Defense (DoD) joint EHR venture. In doing so, he highlighted how the more »
HIMSS13 will provide a variety of opportunities for attendees. Networking (and perhaps commiserating) with fellow healthcare executives will be important. Checking out vendors’ latest and greatest products will be worthwhile. They may even have time to grab some fresh New more »
The Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association), recently released advice on EHR and data transmission security in its paper titled, Practical Guidance to Implement Meaningful Use Stage 2 Secure Health Transport for Certification and Meaningful Use. The group broke down more »
With Health Information Exchange (HIE) expansion comes the prospect of creating security standards for the process of securing the patient data being transported from one organization to the next. That responsibility isn’t going away anytime soon, but many organizations are more »
In the current age of electronic health records, health information exchange, and the digitization of patient data, health data privacy and security are part of any discussion about information management system or application in healthcare and health IT. HIMSS13, the more »
The Privacy & Security Tiger Team met yesterday to further discuss query and response scenarios for Health Information Exchange (HIE). The Tiger Team made it clear that it does not plan to alter the rules that vest providers with the more »
Those who have paid attention to the Health IT Policy and Privacy and Security Tiger Team meetings over the past few months know that the healthcare industry is still in the early stages of formulating health data exchange security standards. more »
