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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. It’s a question posed to me in conversation with Richard Kaufmann, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with Amedisys. JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security?

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Book: IHE Profiles for Health Information Exchange

Healthcare Exchange Standards

IHE Profiles for Health Information Exchange By Keith Boone He is the author, but he gives credit for pulling from many sources including my blog. I am late to promoting this book, should have done it back in March when it was released. It is called a book, but is available for free download in multiple formats.

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Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Health Populi

One of the SMA objectives is to consider the Conference in advance and offer thoughts about what we’ll expect, which I did here in the HIMSS blog space. Furthermore, data can be scraped for all kinds of purposes, outside of the context of health care in which patients and health consumers originally share their data.

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Listen Up, Healthcare: Hear The Patient’s Voice!

Health Populi

One patient could talk with another over their proverbial neighborhood fence, a concerned parent at the PTA meeting with others dealing with a children’s health issue, or a recovering alcoholic testifying in person at an AA session. Fifty-five percent of patient influencers said that privacy concerns have not changed their use of Facebook.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

For CHCF that year, I wrote Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Being Tracked and Used , I took cues from a 60 Minutes ‘ profile of third-party data brokers and Latanya Sweeney’s groundbreaking research at the Harvard Privacy Lab.

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Google Expands Its Information Sorting Tool Pilot           

Healthcare IT Today

Google is expanding its pilot of Care Studio, a new tool designed to help clinicians get to the information they need more easily. The tool, which comes from the Google Health team, takes advantage of its experience in organizing complex health information.

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Protecting Patient Health Information in the Workplace

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Protecting Patient Health Information in the Workplace A large portion of healthcare breaches occur due to human error, whether it is a lost/stolen device, clicking on a phishing email, or accidental disclosure of protected health information (PHI). Protecting patient health … Read more.