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Protecting confidential patient information in an EHR

I wonder if HIPAA suffices to protect patient information?

Especially if the patient data is stored in “the cloud” by a SaaS EHR vendor.

I blogged earlier about patient concerns as voiced on NPR

And here is a report from the UK:

“A study of how healthcare organisations manage personal data”

http://www.cqc.org.uk/_db/_documents/Info_governance_FINAL_PDF.pdf

September 24, 2009 Posted by | Health Information Technology | , , | Leave a Comment

(Forcing?) Adoption of EHRs and doing it right

Interesting discussion I had with Paul Roemer on “The HIE blog“

How do we encourage the adoption of EHRs aside from dangling the ARRA reimbursement carrot in front of the donkey?

Is the process of implementing an EHR any different from a large software project such as SAP or ORACLE?

Join the discussion, here.

September 24, 2009 Posted by | Health Information Technology | , , | Leave a Comment

   

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