DoD to explore commercial EHR options
The U.S. Department of Defense will look to the commercial market for an electronic health record system instead of developing one based on the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA system.
If we're restoring patient trust, we might want to clue the patient in
One of the overarching themes of this year's annual health information data security conference, "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security"--jointly hosted this week by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights--was the issue of patient trust.
In fact, the conference, which I attended in Washington, D.C., kicked off with trust right in the welcoming remarks, with NIST deputy chief for computer security Matthew Scholl stating that patients need an "inherent trust" in their providers and a "trust expectation" that providers need to maintain as they move to advanced technology.
Patients, however, have good reason to be skeptical about their information remaining secure. Read more...
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