The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) co-hosted the 6th annual conference Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security on May 21 & 22, 2013. The conference explored the current health information technology security landscape and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ...
May 22, 2013
Failure to use linked electronic health records may lead to biased estimates of heart attack incidence and outcome, warn researchers in a paper published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). They show that up to 50% of all heart attack cases are missed using just one data source. These findings may be relevant to other common conditions, such as stroke, and support the wider use of linked multiple record ...
May 03, 2013
Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange
Posted by Jeffery Scoop | health information exchange,
The ONC has released the Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange. The Governance Framework reflects the principles in which ONC believes when it comes to the policy set for HIE governance. This framework is intended to provide a common foundation for all types of governance models. Entities that set HIE policy should look to the Governance Framework’s principles as a way to align their ...
