Privacy at National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Health Tech Net October 19, 2007 Jerry P. King RHIA, CRM, CMSC Senior Program Manager
Hot Privacy Issues
#1 Cut & Paste
#2 Local Storage
#3 Unencrypted communications Classical tools Paper and pen Narrative organization Reverse chronologic presentation Free text Diagnosis based on observation and clinical training New knowledge based on observation, folk wisdom, tradition, serendipity, intuitive reasoning, some classical scientific method. Little or no truly scientific research based on clinical trials, collection of standardized data, or statistic inference or modeling.
#4 Remote Access
#5 Sharing Access
#6 Data Integration
Summary It is all about people!
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