Health information exchange outside HIPAA

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has essentially been the first government adopter of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), going into production early this year with an information exchange with MedVa to receive medical records in…

FISMA still being touted as best security for health information exchange

Coming out of the recent CONNECT User Training Seminar held this week in Washington, DC is a reiteration of the opinion previous expressed by federal stakeholders working on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) that non-federal…

Renewed interest in detecting and preventing health care fraud

In an effort to identify any and all ways to shore up the financial stability of Medicare and Medicaid programs, the Obama administration has announced the formation of a task force focused on the use of…

Privacy front and center for health IT

Since the 2004 call for widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, one of the primary barriers to implementation of health information technology solutions and to achieving interoperability of existing health data sources is…