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A word about safety and security and HIT
Home » Healthcare Administration » Healthcare Information Technology » A word about safety and security and HITThe tremendous growth of the healthcare information technology has been paralleled by concerns about patient’s privacy rights. The concerns are very valid: in an age when someone’s identity can be stolen, then his or her health information could possibly be stolen as well. (This is a theoretical statement that is not meant to imply that identity theft automatically assumes the theft of health information; the two are not necessarily related.) However, many HIT advocates argue that personal health information is actually safer in the computerized charts than in paper charts sitting in an unlocked room. Security measures are being developed and enhanced so that information is acquired by those only in a need-to-know basis. Governments are very concerned about these issues as well in their quest to expand HIT capabilities. Overall, it is something to consider and be careful about, but is probably not as serious a threat as some would believe.
Sources:
www.cit.hih.gov
www.hitsummit.com
www.bls.gov.oco/ocos103.html
www.cerner.com
www.centerforhit.org
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