Hi All, I'm just beginning a research project on security/privacy/confidentiality in EHRs. I will greatly appreciate any pointers to any material on this topic, especially with respect to openEHR.
I've just noted that in the US, HIPAA is driving security/privacy/confidentiality implementations in existing EHR systems and it seems its is turning out to be a policy/framework-level security standard for EHRs in the US that does not prescribe implementation issues. I am not sure whether or not EHR standards that incorporate HIPAA compliance have emerged yet. In the EU region, the situation seems different in the absence of HIPAA-type punitive legislation for enforcing healthcare information security and privacy. A number of EHR standards generally incorporate security and privacy considerations. I am not sure whether there are any security and privacy compliance requirements spec standards and implementation (incl. openEHR) in the EU region. I will appreciate any pointer to material in this regard. Thank you in advance Regards ---- Kuda
