A look at the New Orleans HIE security infrastructure
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...
View ArticleTriRivers Health Partners eases into new security projects
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...
View ArticleONC picks DirectTrust.org for HIE privacy, security standards
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...
View ArticleOIG: Extend EHR safe harbor, ensure secure interoperability
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...
View ArticleMass. HIE growing, working on privacy barriers
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...
View ArticleFarzad Mostashari previews ONC HIE security guidance
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)...
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Privacy considerations for integrating behavioral health
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...
View ArticleHow PHRs are streamlining secure exchange better than HIEs
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...
View ArticlePatient privacy, consent crucial to HIE governance framework
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...
View ArticleNew DirectTrust.org chair delves into HIE security and access
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...
View ArticlePatient privacy, consent considerations for health big data
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...
View ArticleHow patient privacy restrictions may affect HIEs
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...
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HISP communication, authentication discussed for Mass. HIE
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...
View ArticleCalif. pilot shows nuances of HIE consent, authorization
The State of California Office of Health Information Integrity (CalOHII) is taking a unique approach to educating covered healthcare organizations and providers in the state about matters of patient...
View ArticleONC releases implementation guidelines for Direct exchange
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the release of “Direct: Implementation Guidelines to Assure Security and Interoperability” intended for...
View ArticleWill patient consent ultimately decide the future of HIE?
Talk of conditions of trust or the capability to send secure messages and information using the Direct protocol, is all well and good. However, without the legal right to exchange health information,...
View ArticleHow disparate HISP transport protocols affect HIE security
Health information service provider (HISP)-to-HISP communication has become among the most-discussed aspects of health information exchange (HIE) recently, as DirectTrust.org chair John Blair recently...
View ArticleMassHIway set to tackle patient consent, authorization
At the most recent meeting of the Health Information Technology Council, the group responsible for advising the state-designated entity for health information exchange (HIE) continued its work to...
View ArticleSecuring and managing HISP-to-HISP communication
The healthcare industry is making necessary progress in securing and certifying Health information service provider (HISP)-to-HISP communication in health information exchanges (HIEs). DigiCert and...
View ArticleTiger Team to hold virtual hearing on HIE query access
The HIT Policy Committee Privacy & Security Tiger Team explained the purpose and scope of its June 24 non-targeted query/response virtual hearing during yesterday’s meeting. In concentrating on...
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