Considering Security and Privacy in the Move to Electronic Health Records Part 1: Benefits of Electronic Health Records

Abstract

The HITECH Act was passed by Congress as part of the stimulus bill at the very beginning of the current Administration. And it has a number of objectives that revolve around adopting electronic health records. But it's more than just adopting them. It's all about adopting them in a way that will benefit people, and not just for the sake of having electronic health records and having computers in doctors' offices, if ; and that's the concept of meaningful use. We need to have physicians and patients share in their care for the share of information, and use these records in a meaningful way to improve their care. This is an extension of efforts that have been going on for actually quite some time. The federal government started studying the feasibility of electronic health records back in the early 1970s, when I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon; and it's been going on ever since.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1147207

Entities

People

  • Deborah Lafky
  • Julia Alen
  • Matt Butkovic

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Beach Heads
  • Best Practices
  • Communities
  • Computer Networks
  • Congress
  • Copyrights
  • Hospitals
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Governments
  • Physicians
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Training
  • United States
  • Universities

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Mental Health of Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Risk Factors, Prevalence, Symptoms, and Treatment.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics