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Boost for EMR Security?
Staff Writers
Nine companies in the health care industry have banded together to create a set of security standards to better protect the information in electronic medical records [EMRs].
The companies, including HCA, Humana and Highmark Inc., have committed to use the security practices which they will develop along with Health Information Trust Alliance LLC (Hitrust), a Texas- based organization created to oversee the project. To date, Hitrust has received 40 more applications from other companies hoping to participate; with a goal of 155 by the end of February, 2008.
Although health care companies are currently required by HIPAA to secure protected health information (PHI), the law is vague and each organization is allowed to determine what steps to take on its own. This often requires health entities to audit the data protection practices of business partners and related covered entities.
And so, will this new consortium be a boon to HIT, or just another “new” consortium boon-dongle?
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According to Charlene Marietti of Healthcare Informatics magazine, 2008 will be a year of changes in HIT. She believes the outlook for physician groups points the menacing triad of:
1. More work,
2. Lower reimbursements, and
3. Evolving service models.
What do you think?
-Ann Miller; RN
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