NIST has released its draft Interagency Report (IR) 7497, Security Architecture Design Process for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), which is intended: to provide a systematic approach to designing technical security architecture for the exchange of health information that leverages common government and commercial practices and that applies them specifically to the HIE domain. This…
Category: Uncategorized
Medicare Launches Medicare Personal Health Record Choice Pilot
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced the launch of the Medicare PHR Choice Pilot in Arizona and Utah. This pilot program will offer beneficiaries with Original Medicare the opportunity to choose one of the personal health record (PHR) products offered by the companies selected for the pilot. PHRs will allow beneficiaries…
Minnesota offers new controls on newborn blood tests
The Minnesota Department of Health announced new measures Friday designed to address concerns that a program of blood screening for Minnesota newborns could violate patient and family privacy rights. In a key step, the department will propose legislation this year giving it the right to keep infants’ blood samples for two years, as part of…
CDT Paper Debunks Common Health Privacy Myths
From CDT.org: The public has significant privacy concerns about having their medical records on-line. That mistrust of health IT poses a serious obstacle to its widespread adoption. We need to build on the privacy rules already found in HIPAA and create new protections leading to a comprehensive privacy and security policy framework for the evolving…
UK: Security probe after data breach at prison
Aasma Day reports: A security probe has been launched after a memory stick containing details of more than 6,000 prisoners was lost – with the password attached to it. The USB data stick was lost by a health worker at Preston prison. All 6,360 patients are, or have been, a prisoner at Her Majesty’s Prison…
Media groups want Neb. cemetery records released
An update on a court case we’ve been covering on this and related sites: Several media organizations on Thursday joined a Nebraska historical society’s fight to obtain the names of 957 people buried in unmarked graves at a former psychiatric hospital cemetery. The organizations filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting a lawsuit filed…