Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition. Barbara J. Rothstein, Ronald J. Hedges, and Elizabeth C. Wiggins. Federal Judicial Center, 2012 “ESI currently includes e-mail messages, word processing files, web pages, and databases created and stored on computers, magnetic disks (such as computer hard drives), optical disks (such as DVDs… Continue Reading
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Privacy and Security Framework Requirements and Guidance for the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program
HHS, March 22, 2012 – “The National Quality Strategy sets three aims for improving health care in our country: better care, affordable care, and healthy people and communities. Information that is accurate, up to date, and available when and where a patient seeks care is the lifeblood of health care improvement and crucial to reaching… Continue Reading
CDT – Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data
Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data, March 22, 2012 “As the digitization of health records makes it easier and more cost effective to share and analyze health data, policymakers and businesses are increasingly looking to use health data for secondary purposes uses beyond that for which the health data were originally collected. For example,… Continue Reading
Report: Much work still needed to achieve widespread use of computerized patient records
Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT Bipartisan Policy, Center Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT, January 2012 “Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health cares triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for… Continue Reading
New Report: Obama Administration Makes Transparency Gains; Challenges Remain
News release: “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and OpenTheGovernment.org released a joint report, Measuring Transparency Under the FOIA: The Real Story Behind the Numbers, analyzing the governments Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data for 2010 and how it compares to the previous administrations data…The results paint a very mixed picture on the… Continue Reading
Presidential Memorandum – Managing Government Records
“This memorandum begins an executive branch wide effort to reform records management policies and practices. Improving records management will improve performance and promote openness and accountability by better documenting agency actions and decisions. Records transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide the prism through which future generations will understand and learn from… Continue Reading
Records for 4.9 million Texas military clinic and hospital patients stolen
News release: “The loss of computer tapes by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) may have placed TRICARE patient data at risk. There is no evidence that any of the data has actually been accessed by a third party, and analysis shows the chance any data was actually compromised is low, but proactive measures are being… Continue Reading
Over 100,000 primary care providers sign up to adopt electronic health records through their Regional Extension Centers
News release: “The HHS Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced today that more than 100,000 primary care providers are adopting certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to help improve their quality of care and ultimately lower health care costs. This commitment by more than one-third of all primary care providers nationwide to… Continue Reading
Privacy and Security in the Implementation of Health Information Technology: U.S. and EU Compared
Privacy and Security in the Implementation of Health Information Technology (Electronic Health Records): U.S. and EU Compared, B.U. J. SCI. & TECH. L., Vol. 17, Winter 2011. “The importance of the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the associated cost savings cannot be ignored as an element in the changing delivery of health care.… Continue Reading
Symantec Survey Finds Emails Are No Longer the Most Commonly Specified Documents in eDiscovery Requests
News release: “Symantec Corp. announced the findings of its 2011 Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey which examined how enterprises manage their ever-growing volumes of electronically stored information and prepare for the eventuality of an eDiscovery request. The survey of legal and IT personnel at 2,000 enterprises worldwide found email is not the primary source of… Continue Reading
HHS Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan 2011 2015
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan, 2011 2015. In developing and executing the federal health IT strategy, the government strives to “Put individuals and their interests first. In order to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, the government must meet the needs… Continue Reading
CDT: Under Proposed Rule, Patients Will Receive Clinical Test Results Directly
News release: “Ever have a medical test done and then had to wait around sometimes anxiously, depending on the test to get the lab test results from your doctor? Thats about to change. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed regulations that would give patients the ability to access their… Continue Reading
