Research Catalog

Title

Patient privacy, consent, and identity management in health information exchange : issues for the military health system / Susan D. Hosek, Susan G. Straus ; prepared for the United States Army.

Author

Hosek, Susan D.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Arroyo Center
• RAND Health
• Straus, Susan G.

Description

xxiii, 78 pages : 1 map; 23 cm

Summary

The Military Health System (MHS) and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have been among the nation⁰́₉s leaders in health information technology (IT), including the development of health IT systems and electronic health records that summarize patients⁰́₉ care from multiple providers. Health IT interoperability within MHS and across MHS partners, including VHA, is one of ten goals in the current MHS Strategic Plan. As a step toward achieving improved interoperability, the MHS is seeking to develop a research roadmap to better coordinate health IT research efforts, address IT capability gaps, and reduce programmatic risk for its enterprise projects. This report contributes to that effort by identifying gaps in research, policy, and practice involving patient privacy, consent, and identity management that need to be addressed to bring about improved quality and efficiency of care through health information exchange. Major challenges include (1) designing a meaningful patient consent procedure, (2) recording patients⁰́₉ consent preferences and designing procedures to implement restrictions on disclosures of protected health information, and (3) advancing knowledge regarding the best technical approaches to performing patient identity matches and how best to monitor results over time. Using a sociotechnical framework, this report suggests steps for overcoming these challenges and topics for future research.

Subject

• Information Systems
• Information storage and retrieval systems > Medical care
• Medical Informatics
• Medical Records
• Medical informatics > United States
• Medical records > Access control > United States
• Medicine, Military > United States > Information services
• Military Medicine
• United States
• United States > Medical care
• United States

Note

• "RAND Arroyo Center and RAND Health"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction and Background -- Privacy of Individual Health Information -- Patient Consent for Health Information Exchange -- Patient Identity Management -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

ISBN

• 9780833077905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0833077902 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013015711

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library