Business Associates in the National Health Information Network: Implications for Medical Information Privacy
Business Associates in the National Health Information Network: Implications for Medical Information Privacy
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国家健康信息网络中的业务伙伴：对医疗信息隐私的影响
DOI：
10.4018/jebr.2009040103
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2009
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C. Snodgrass
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作者：
E. Szewczak;C. Snodgrass
本文探讨了医疗保健提供者（BAHP）在国家卫生信息网络的业务伙伴的作用。目前的健康保险可携带性和责任立法对BAHP及其对医疗信息隐私的潜在影响几乎没有提及。为了企业的利益，BAHP或监督BAHP的管理者需要意识到忽视医疗信息隐私的潜在陷阱，并采取积极主动的立场保护国家健康信息网络内的医疗信息隐私。管理者可以采取的方法包括在企业和BAHP之间建立法律的合同，积极采用更有效的传输安全技术，并确保BAHP在使用后正确处理医疗信息。这种积极主动的方法将有助于确保企业受到保护，免受可能导致企业面临流行和/或法律的挑战的严重数据泄露。
This article examines the role of the business associate of healthcare providers (BAHP) in the National Health Information Network. Current Health Insurance Portability and Accountability legislation has little to say about BAHPs and their potential impact on medical information privacy. For the good of the business enterprise, managers who are BAHPs or who supervise BAHPs need to be aware of the potential pitfalls of ignoring medical information privacy and take a proactive stance in protecting medical information privacy within the National Health Information Network. Among the approaches that managers can adopt include creating legal contracts between a business and BAHPs, proactively adopting more effective transmission security technologies, and insuring that BAHPs properly dispose of medical information after their use. Such proactive approaches will help to insure that the business is protected against a serious data breach that may result in popular and/or legal challenges to the business.