RT Book, Section
A1 Cucina, Russ
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1193122455
T1 Patient Confidentiality & Information Technology
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264687343
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193122455
RD 2024/04/24
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.