Sharona Hoffman and Andy Podgurski
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804760089
- eISBN:
- 9780804772594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804760089.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter analyzes electronic health data security vulnerabilities and the legal framework that has been established to address them. It describes the wide-ranging threats to health information ...
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This chapter analyzes electronic health data security vulnerabilities and the legal framework that has been established to address them. It describes the wide-ranging threats to health information security and the harms that security breaches can produce. Some of the threats arise from sources that are internal to organizations, including irresponsible or malicious employees, while other threats are external, such as hackers and data miners. The harms associated with improper disclosure of private medical data can include medical identity theft, blackmail, public humiliation, medical mistakes, discrimination, and loss of financial, employment, and other opportunities. The chapter also discusses federal laws, state laws, and common-law causes of action that address patient privacy rights and health information security. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving safeguards for electronically processed health records.Less
This chapter analyzes electronic health data security vulnerabilities and the legal framework that has been established to address them. It describes the wide-ranging threats to health information security and the harms that security breaches can produce. Some of the threats arise from sources that are internal to organizations, including irresponsible or malicious employees, while other threats are external, such as hackers and data miners. The harms associated with improper disclosure of private medical data can include medical identity theft, blackmail, public humiliation, medical mistakes, discrimination, and loss of financial, employment, and other opportunities. The chapter also discusses federal laws, state laws, and common-law causes of action that address patient privacy rights and health information security. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving safeguards for electronically processed health records.
Frederick M. Barken
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449765
- eISBN:
- 9780801460609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449765.003.0003
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter reflects on various issues surrounding medical care of the elderly. It first shares his views regarding an older patient's ability to drive a motor vehicle safely, giving examples of ...
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This chapter reflects on various issues surrounding medical care of the elderly. It first shares his views regarding an older patient's ability to drive a motor vehicle safely, giving examples of patients in their eighties who elected to keep on driving even after losing their licenses. The chapter then considers the issue of patient privacy and the role of primary care physicians in arbitrating in family matters that only loosely belong within the category of health, citing driving as an example. It argues that the whole matter of elderly driver safety belongs outside of the medical examination room. The chapter also comments on the modern movement toward standardization in medicine and its potential impact on physician-patient relationships; evidence-based medicine (EBM); and the role of computers in medicine, and especially in the delivery of primary care medicine to elderly patients. Finally, the chapter desccribes how doctors typically spend time in geriatric care and suggests that medical care of the elderly is more art than science.Less
This chapter reflects on various issues surrounding medical care of the elderly. It first shares his views regarding an older patient's ability to drive a motor vehicle safely, giving examples of patients in their eighties who elected to keep on driving even after losing their licenses. The chapter then considers the issue of patient privacy and the role of primary care physicians in arbitrating in family matters that only loosely belong within the category of health, citing driving as an example. It argues that the whole matter of elderly driver safety belongs outside of the medical examination room. The chapter also comments on the modern movement toward standardization in medicine and its potential impact on physician-patient relationships; evidence-based medicine (EBM); and the role of computers in medicine, and especially in the delivery of primary care medicine to elderly patients. Finally, the chapter desccribes how doctors typically spend time in geriatric care and suggests that medical care of the elderly is more art than science.
Barbara M. Hayes and William Aspray (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262014328
- eISBN:
- 9780262289498
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014328.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Information Technology
The health care industry has been slow to join the information technology revolution; handwritten records are still the primary means of organizing patient care. Concerns about patient privacy, the ...
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The health care industry has been slow to join the information technology revolution; handwritten records are still the primary means of organizing patient care. Concerns about patient privacy, the difficulty of developing appropriate computing tools and information technology, high costs, and the resistance of some physicians and nurses have hampered the use of technology in health care. In 2009, the U.S. government committed billions of dollars to health care technology. Many questions remain, however, about how to deploy these resources. This book uses diabetes—a costly, complex, and widespread disease that involves nearly every facet of the health care system—to examine the challenges of using the tools of information technology to improve patient care. The book focuses on the patient, charting the information problems patients encounter in different stages of the disease. Chapters discuss ubiquitous computing as a tool to move diabetes care out of the doctor’s office, technology and chronic disease management, educational gaming as a way to help patients understand their disease, patient access to information, and methodological and theoretical concerns. We need both technologists and providers at the drawing board in order to design and deploy effective digital tools for health care. This book examines and exemplifies this necessary collaboration.Less
The health care industry has been slow to join the information technology revolution; handwritten records are still the primary means of organizing patient care. Concerns about patient privacy, the difficulty of developing appropriate computing tools and information technology, high costs, and the resistance of some physicians and nurses have hampered the use of technology in health care. In 2009, the U.S. government committed billions of dollars to health care technology. Many questions remain, however, about how to deploy these resources. This book uses diabetes—a costly, complex, and widespread disease that involves nearly every facet of the health care system—to examine the challenges of using the tools of information technology to improve patient care. The book focuses on the patient, charting the information problems patients encounter in different stages of the disease. Chapters discuss ubiquitous computing as a tool to move diabetes care out of the doctor’s office, technology and chronic disease management, educational gaming as a way to help patients understand their disease, patient access to information, and methodological and theoretical concerns. We need both technologists and providers at the drawing board in order to design and deploy effective digital tools for health care. This book examines and exemplifies this necessary collaboration.
