Assessing the HIPAA standard in practice: PHR privacy policies

Carrion, Inmaculada; Alemán, José Luis Fernández; Toval, Ambrosio

doi:10.1109/iembs.2011.6090664

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“…In addition, Carrión et al evaluated the privacy policies of 20 PHRs to check the privacy of patients' data was preserved in accordance with HIPAA guidelines [20]. Another study verifies the usable privacy and security in 22 web-based PHRs [21].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Evaluation and Neuronal Network-Based Classification of the PHRs Privacy Policies

Carrion

́n²,

Jayne

et al. 2012

2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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There has been growing interest by health services providers in providing PHRs (Personal Health Records) which can store individual's personal health information. In PHRs, access to data is controlled by the patient, not by the health care provider. Although a number of benefits can be achieved with the PHRs, important security and privacy challenges of PHRs arise. In this paper a review of the privacy policies of 22 free web-based PHRs is presented. Our objective is to measure the effects of adoption of international standards and cost on privacy and security characteristics. Security and privacy characteristics were extracted according to the standard ISO/TS 13606-4. A statistical analysis was conducted and a neural network-based classification of PHRs was performed. Some improvements can be done to current privacy policies of PHRs to enhance management of other users' data, notification of changes in privacy policy to users and access audits.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 98%

Evaluation and Neuronal Network-Based Classification of the PHRs Privacy Policies

Carrion

́n²,

Jayne

et al. 2012

2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Nevertheless, common findings or themes are frequently found in the literature. Privacy and security concerns [2,10,11,[17][18][19] are a frequently stated barrier to adoption. Differences characterized by socio-economic divides, e.g.…”

Section: The Management Of Electronic Personal Health Information (Ephi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These barriers impact the decision to start using a PHR, the adoption process and the continued use of PHRs [8]. Patient-centered barriers to adoption, from the literature, include concerns for information privacy [9][10][11], patient awareness, and/or interest [12]; patients' ability to understand medical records [4]. From a provider-centered perspective, the lack of provider reimbursement for time spent in portal communication [7], and the response time required of providers [4].…”

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A Lazy User Perspective to the Voluntary Adoption of Electronic Personal Health Records (PHRs)

Kunene

Diop²

2018

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Personal Health Records (PHRs) have been imbued with the potential to improve health outcomes for individual healthcare consumers, providers, and the broader healthcare system. With Meaningful Use Stage 2 now mandating the implementation of tethered PHRs, tethered to provider electronic health records (patient portals), will healthcare consumers voluntarily use PHRs and contribute to safety, quality, efficiency and reduced health disparities through engagement? Or will PHR use remain low? In this qualitative study, using grounded theory, we asked users how they currently managed their personal health information (PHI) and why. Using the lazy user model, we found that letting physicians manage healthcare consumers PHI is the least effortbased solution and thus the predominant and preferred solution. Providers as guardians of patient PHI suggests the low use rates may persist yet. We should do more to make these technologies usable and accessible to those with irregular contact with a primary care physician.

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“…Most of these articles have discussed about security and privacy concerns and most of them (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) described the introduction of some solutions to safeguard the security of the records and to protect patients' privacy on health information.…”

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A systematic literature review of Security, Privacy and Confidentiality of patient information in Electronic Health Information Systems

Jayawardena¹

2013

Sri Lanka J Bio-Medical Informatics

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Introduction The evolution of medicine during the past few decades has resulted in electronic transformation of patient records which experienced multiple problems such as security, privacy and confidentiality of patient's information. Security, privacy and confidentiality are potentially major problems in electronic health records and no system currently available in the world is 100% secure. The objectives of this study were to describe the major issues related to security, privacy and confidentiality of electronic health information systems and computer based patient record systems and to describe methods currently used to overcome those issues by reviewing published articles. Method These articles were identified by searching the PubMed online electronic bibliographic database [www.ncbi.nih.gov/pubmed] for articles published between January 2000 and January 2013 using the keywords security, privacy, confidentiality, electronic health information systems, and computer based patient record systems. 25 articles were selected for this review after a screening process from among 236 articles identified after the PubMed search. Results All 25 articles (100%) had identified that security, privacy, and confidentiality were major problems with Electronic Health Records. None of them were 100% secure and only two (8%) were Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant. Conclusion Safeguarding the security, privacy and confidentiality is a major problem in electronic health records and a major challenge for governments. However, studies on the security, privacy and confidentiality issues were not conclusive. Alternative approaches considering social, cultural and governmental factors may be needed to be taken into account to deal with the security, privacy and confidentiality issues.

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Assessing the HIPAA standard in practice: PHR privacy policies

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

Evaluation and Neuronal Network-Based Classification of the PHRs Privacy Policies

Evaluation and Neuronal Network-Based Classification of the PHRs Privacy Policies

A Lazy User Perspective to the Voluntary Adoption of Electronic Personal Health Records (PHRs)

A systematic literature review of Security, Privacy and Confidentiality of patient information in Electronic Health Information Systems

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