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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services • Office for Civil Rights has updated its FAQ. 1. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule limit an individual’s ability to gather and share family medical history information? No. The HIPAA Privacy Rule may limit how a covered entity (for example, a health plan or most health care…

  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…

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…

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…

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…