Health Information Security & Privacy Collaboration
Overview of the Issue
Health information exchange (HIE) refers to sharing electronic clinical and administrative data across the boundaries of health care institutions so that a patient’s health information is available when it is needed.
Many stakeholder groups (payers, patients, providers, and others) realize that sharing health data has the potential to: reduce medical errors, costly duplicate testing and unnecessary hospitalization; increase consumer convenience by reducing repetitive paperwork; and provide life-saving public health data.
Sharing health data raises serious concerns about the misuse of medical data. Concerns about discrimination, inability to get a mortgage, and loss of employment, insurance, and privacy may result in patients being reluctant to obtain medical care or providing false or incomplete information to healthcare providers, which would reduce the benefits of HIE.
This project explores how to realize the benefits of HIE, while assuring the privacy and security of health information.
Project Reports
We have completed an assessment of variations in privacy and security practices, defined the critical issues, consolidated best practices and prepared on implementation plan. For more information and to view all the reports, please click here.
Health Information Security & Privacy Collaboration
Overview of the Issue
Health information exchange (HIE) refers to sharing electronic clinical and administrative data across the boundaries of health care institutions so that a patient’s health information is available when it is needed.
Many stakeholder groups (payers, patients, providers, and others) realize that sharing health data has the potential to: reduce medical errors, costly duplicate testing and unnecessary hospitalization; increase consumer convenience by reducing repetitive paperwork; and provide life-saving public health data.
Sharing health data raises serious concerns about the misuse of medical data. Concerns about discrimination, inability to get a mortgage, and loss of employment, insurance, and privacy may result in patients being reluctant to obtain medical care or providing false or incomplete information to healthcare providers, which would reduce the benefits of HIE.
This project explores how to realize the benefits of HIE, while assuring the privacy and security of health information.
Project Reports
We have completed an assessment of variations in privacy and security practices, defined the critical issues, consolidated best practices and prepared on implementation plan. For more information and to view all the reports, please click here.