Trust by whom, in whom, and in what context?

It’s fairly common to see trust mentioned as needed, desired, or required to achieve a given outcome. For example, in the case of health information technology adoption, trust is seen as an essential element for widespread…

Federal CISOs appear to trust technology more than Congress

The results of the recently released (ISC)2 sponsored report, The 2010 State of Cybersecurity from the Federal CISO’s Perspective, suggest a pervasive distrust of U.S. legislators by federal Chief Information Security Officers, based in large part…

Experience of European legislator shows philosophical differences on privacy, and lack of trust in U.S. government

A story published this week in the New York Times highlights some of the key privacy concerns many Europeans have with U.S. data collection practices, particularly those followed under the justification of preventing terrorism. The article…

Patient-centric control over data is key to trust in EHRs, but managing consent is not that simple

Another interesting briefing coming out of the ONC Health IT Policy Committee meeting this week was a presentation from Privacy and Security Workgroup chair Deven McGraw, which highlighted the workgroup’s current focus on privacy protections in…

Accountability and enforcement, not just policy, needed to produce trust framework for health information exchange

At yesterday’s monthly meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee, a briefing provided by the leads of the Committee’s NHIN Workgroup described the need for a health information exchange (HIE) trust framework and spelled out five…

If you build it, will anyone come?

In all the discussion about health information exchange and electronic health records and establishing trust among public and private sector organizations, what’s often lost is the voice of the consumer. The goal of widespread EHR adoption…

House passes Data Accountability and Trust Act

Legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week (H.R. 2221, the Data Accountability and Trust Act) includes provisions both for national standards on data breach notifications and adding new responsibilities and consumer empowerment protections to…