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Piliouras, Teresa; Yu, Pui Lam; Xia, Tian; Yu, Seok-Jong; Sultana, Naveed; Lauer, Joseph G.; Berry, Landon

doi:10.1109/isecon.2013.6525225

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“…The HIPAA Privacy Rule, the HIPAA Security Rule, and the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) and the companion Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) mandate strict protections for access, authentication, storage, auditing, and transmittal of medical records, including medical images. The regulations require covered entities to put in place numerous administrative, physical, and technical security safeguards, such as: i) logs and audit tracking of all disclosure of patient PHI (Protected Health Information) for a minimum of three years, ii) signed agreements with business associates stating they will comply with HIPAA provisions, iii) full data encryption and transmission security, iv) backup and disaster recovery plans, including data archives and off-site storage, v) employee training, vi) comprehensive security risk assessment, and so on [26].…”

Section: Openemr: a Case Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital imaging & electronic health record systems: Implementation and regulatory challenges faced by healthcare providers

Piliouras¹,

Suss²,

Yu³

2015

2015 Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology

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Electronic capture of patient records, including digital imaging, facilitates: i) collaboration and communication between providers and entities involved in patient care, ii) compilation of lifetime patient histories that are more accessible to treating physicians, and iii) aggregation of population data for evidencebased medicine and creation of decision support tools. The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) Incentive Programs and associated Meaningful Use (MU) requirements are a driving force in the evolution towards digitized patient recordkeeping. For the foreseeable future, MU will continue to exert pressure on EHR vendors, hospitals, and ambulatory practices to conform to increasingly stringent government reporting requirements or else face obsolescence and/or reduced fees for services. This is encouraging many practices -including radiology and digital imaging centers -that may have opted out of MU compliance in the past -to re-examine how they integrate their work flows with EHR systems and with other physicians and treatment facilities. This paper describes digital imaging technology and strategies to interface and integrate it with EHR systems and clinical work flows. A case study based on the open source electronic health record software, OpenEMR, is presented as an illustrative example of challenges integrating imaging and EHR technology across and between clinical practices. The case study demonstrates how poor EHR integration with picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and radiology information systems (RIS) complicates and adds to the clinician work flow and reduces the diagnostic value of imaging data. EHR, PACS, and RIS vendors need to improve system interoperability and image sharing capabilities in their product offerings. Better, more complete standards are needed to enable this to happen. DICOM, HL7, IHE, and other standards are evolving to address gaps in data integration and continuity across the spectrum of health information technology used in patient care. This will alleviate burdens on healthcare professionals and information technology staff who must use and implement systems infrastructure while maintaining compliance with Meaningful Use (MU) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This is essential to achieving technology's promise of optimized healthcare delivery.Keywords-medical digital imaging, Health Insurance and Portability Act (HIPAA), Meaningful Use, DICOM format, OpenEMR, electronic healthcare records (EHR) systems, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS)

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Section: Openemr: a Case Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital imaging & electronic health record systems: Implementation and regulatory challenges faced by healthcare providers

Piliouras¹,

Suss²,

Yu³

2015

2015 Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology

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Anytime, anywhere, anyone instruction: A tool for life-long learning

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