TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Patient Confidentiality & Information Technology A1 - Cucina, Russ A2 - Papadakis, Maxine A. A2 - McPhee, Stephen J. A2 - Rabow, Michael W. A2 - McQuaid, Kenneth R. PY - 2023 T2 - Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023 AB - The ancient ethical obligation to protect the privacy of our patients takes on new importance in the setting of digital health information. The same ability to make health information universally available that is at the heart of health information technology's power entrains our commitment to patient privacy in new and complex ways. From a legal perspective, in the United States, the security and privacy rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act place important requirements on the individual clinician and group to ensure the security of electronic protected health information, and several states have enacted more restrictive measures. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193122455 ER -