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IBHI

Join us for the Pre-Institute Workshop, sponsored by Credible Behavioral Healthcare Software. Registration is only an additional $50.00 for those attending the 2010 Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics!. This year’s workshop will include the following sessions:

  • Critical Success Factors Driving On-Time & Effective Implementations

  • What Software Vendors May Not Want You to Know

  • Implementation Management Tools

  • Managing Agency & vendor Expectations to Maximize Your ROI

  • Lessons Learned: Optimal Project Management Team Selection, Rollout Strategies, Major Failures, Structural Quick Sand, Partnerships Versus Adversaries

For more information, including a full agenda and on-line registration, visit:
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Credible

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Taming the PHR

March RothsteinOne in 14 Americans has a personal Health Record (PHR). But, according to Mark A. Rothstein, J.D., Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, there are a number of critical privacy issues related to PHRs that have not yet been resolved. These issue include:

  • The ability of PHR sponsors to sell health information for commercial purposes

  • Inadequate security built into the PHR, making it vulnerable to hackers

  • The ‘mobility’ of PHRs – which are kept on consumer desktops, laptops and mobile devices – requires special security

  • The growing problem of medical identity theft (as of 2010, 1.5 million Americans have been victims, with an overall cost of $26 billion)


Mr. Rothstein is an advocate for specific regulation to address these PHR-related privacy issues. His recommendations include:

  1. A set of uniform privacy and security rules should apply to all PHRs

  2.  HHS needs to commit resources to research and develop technologies to sequester sensitive information

  3. All disclosures from PHRs to third parties (employers, insurers) should require a separate, explicit consent

  4. Increased consumer education about the privacy issues with PHRs

To learn more about privacy issues with PHRs and fair information practices, join us for Mark Rothstein’s keynote presentation, "Privacy, Portability, and the Future of Health Records," at this year’s Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics.

John TalbotSincerely,
John F. Talbot, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President,
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