- 244 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment
About this book
Advances in health information technology (health IT) have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare, to increase the availability of health information for treatment, and to implement safeguards that cannot be applied easily or cost-effectively to paper-based health records. However, the digitization of health information is also raising new privacy
risks and concerns. Sensitive health information in digital form is more easily aggregated, used, and shared. In addition, the rising cost of healthcare and the search for efficiency may create incentives to use the information in new ways.
Research has consistently shown that while the public sees the potential value of health information exchange and technological advancements, it remains gravely concerned about the privacy of their sensitive health information. As a result, it is becoming increasingly clear that ensuring public trust will be critical to the successful implementation of nationwide health information exchange.
The purpose of this second edition is two-fold: 1) to educate readers about privacy concepts and 2) highlight key privacy issues facing the nation and the healthcare community as it moves towards electronic health records and health information exchange. The first three chapters are descriptive in nature, defining privacy and distinguishing it from security, defining the complex legal landscape for health information privacy, and setting the stage for the following chapters by describing the current landscape of the evolving healthcare environment. The following chapters discuss specific privacy issues and challenges in detail. The book concludes with a chapter providing a view to the future of healthcare and the association privacy implications. This is an updated version of one of HIMSS' best-selling books on information privacy.
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Table of contents
- Cover-Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editor
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Is Privacy?
- 2 Considering Ethics in Privacy
- 3 The Role of Information Security in Protecting Privacy in the Healthcare Environment
- 4 The Legal Framework for Health Information Privacy
- 5 Privacy Challenges in Health Information Exchange
- 6 Maintaining a Holistic Approach to Privacy
- 7 Transparency
- 8 Secondary Use of Protected Health Information
- 9 The Past, Present, and Future of Healthcare Privacy
- Index