New Resource Provides Guidance on Data Sharing

New resource aims to facilitate secure data exchange

Markle Connecting for Health has issued a collection of resources designed to support the secure exchange of health information. The Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework Policies in Practice for Health Information Sharing — or Polices in Practice — address current critical implementation issues for electronic health data sharing, including informed individual consent, governance, individual [...]

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Jim Noga, CIO, Partners HealthCare, Chapter 1

Jim Noga, CIO, Partners HealthCare

Reevaluating the overall clinicals situation
“We really see the need to take more of an enterprise approach”
Where to buy, where to build?
“We see a real gap in the marketplace of clinical collaboration tools”
Running a software development shop
Staying strategic when there’s so much to do
Security and BYOD strategies

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Mary Anne Leach, CIO, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Chapter 3

Mary Anne Leach, CIO, Children's Hospital Colorado

Lessons learned from consulting
EHRs have come a long way
“It’s difficult for legislators to understand our world”
Childrens’ ICD-10 efforts
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance
How data leaks impact consumer confidence

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Laishy Williams-Carlson, VP/CIO, Bon Secours Health System, Chapter 3

The C-suite talent pool
Finding support for weaknesses
Balancing the governance process
Defining culture — balancing regional differences
Handling the docs — diffusing charged situations

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Buddy Hickman, EVP/CIO, Albany Medical Center, Discusses His CHIME Survey on HIPAA And IT Security, Chapter 2

Breaking down the survey results
Do you add another class? “I’m very sensitive to the number of things that we have going on in the medical center that require workforce members to be trained and aware of.”
Best practice in governance

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Buddy Hickman, EVP/CIO, Albany Medical Center, Discusses His CHIME Survey on HIPAA And IT Security, Chapter 1

Origins and goals of the survey
Breaking down breach scenarios
CHIME’s position on the accounting of disclosures NPRM

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CHIME Wants Reduced Reporting Burden In Proposed HIPAA Changes

Proposed HIPAA changes establish standards that would be difficult for providers to meet and should be scaled back, according to comments filed by CHIME. The organization said the rules rely too much on technical capabilities that are not widely available and fail to acknowledge the amount of human intervention that will be necessary to achieve [...]

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IOM Cites Patient ID As Challenge

A new report from the Institute of Medicine identifies the most important principles that should guide the establishment of a digital infrastructure “that will support a learning health system at the national level.” Areas identified for further analysis included the potential health and economic returns associated with IT, consensus on standards and quality measures, and [...]

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Bill Spooner, SVP/CIO, Sharp Healthcare, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 1

*Writing commentary on industry trends
*”All of a sudden we’ve been upended by HITECH, health reform …”
*Thoughts on HITECH
*The importance of advocacy
*Why change takes time

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