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Technologies to Assure Privacy, Security and Trust

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We’ve repeatedly emphasized that successful management of chronic diseases in our highly specialized and fragmented healthcare system requires digital data that can be shared to coordinate care. However, patient-specific healthcare data is highly sensitive and is protected by HIPAA which calls for severe penalties for failures to properly secure so-called protected health information (PHI).

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  1. 1.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/health/policy/03hipaa.html?pagewanted=all.

  2. 2.

    http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/De-identification/guidance.html#standard.

  3. 3.

    http://xid.norc.org/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/C/PDF%20ConsumersHealthInfoTechnologyNationalSurvey.pdf.

  5. 5.

    http://www.healthit.gov/facas/sites/faca/files/HITPC_Consumer_Privacy_and_Security_2014-11-04.pdf.

  6. 6.

    http://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/DS2-Policy.pdf.

  7. 7.

    http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-attackers-steal-private-keys-digital-certificates.

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    http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5306.

  9. 9.

    http://issues.org/25-4/detmer/.

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Mark L. Braunstein

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Braunstein, M.L. (2015). Technologies to Assure Privacy, Security and Trust. In: Practitioner's Guide to Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17662-8_6

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