Health Information Privacy

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Increase Health Information Technology Adoption and Connectivity — Oct 12, 2009

This document explores how increased health information technology (HIT) adoption and connectivity would affect health system performance along nine dimensions.

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Crossed Wires: How Yesterday's Privacy Rules Might Undercut Tomorrow's Nationwide Health Information Network — Mar 14, 2009

More than a decade after passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), concerns about the privacy and security of personal health information remain a major policy issue. Now, the emergence of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) presents deeper underlying privacy challenges, which will require renewed attention from policymakers as federal and state privacy rules need to be revisited.

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Interoperable Electronic Prescribing in the United States: A Progress Report — Mar 14, 2009

Although the vast majority of U.S. physicians still handwrite prescriptions, adoption of electronic prescribing is slowly growing. Major barriers to adoption remain, including the inability to electronically submit prescriptions for controlled substances and confusion about standards for data exchange. Federal and state governments and private insurers are using payment and policy incentives to boost e-prescribing because they still…

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Creating Unique Health ID Numbers Would Facilitate Improved Health Care Quality and Efficiency — Oct 20, 2008

Creating a unique patient identification number for every person in the United States would facilitate a reduction in medical errors, simplify the use of electronic medical records, increase overall efficiency and help protect patient privacy.

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Identity Crisis? Approaches to Patient Identification in a National Health Information Network — Oct 8, 2008

This research brief summarizes an analysis and comparison of two methods of patient identification — statistical matching and unique patient identifier — on error rates, operational efficiency, costs, and privacy and security issues.

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A National Health Information Network -- What Are the Real Privacy Issues? — Aug 18, 2008

This fact sheet summarizes research suggesting that there are basic privacy issues that need to be resolved in the implementation of a national health information network.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Electronic Health Records: A Key Enabler for Ehealth — Dec 31, 2003

Electronic health records open up new options for healthcare delivery.

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Michael D. Greenberg

Director, RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance; Senior Behavioral Scientist
J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Duke University

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M. Susan Ridgely

Senior Policy Analyst
J.D., University of Maryland School of Law

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