New Opportunities and Approaches For Patient De-Identification in Healthcare
 Healthcare providers face risks beyond HIPAA
if they fail to provide adequate security for their medical devices

1.5 IAPP CEs
Aug. 2, 2006

Healthcare faces mounting demands to share data with others and ensure stronger patient privacy for quality of care, research and public health surveillance. The national drive to develop electronic medical records (EMRs) is only intensifying the need to assure patient data remains confidential. One important approach for sharing patient data while protecting privacy is de-identifying medical records - a strategy encouraged by HIPAA.

Despite a slow start, new approaches for data de-identification have emerged that will help healthcare organizations accomplish their goals of improving quality of care, promoting research and protecting privacy. Data de-identification also is becoming popular with Regional Health Information Organizations, the test beds for EMRs.

To help healthcare understand and take advantage of new opportunities in de-identification, Health Information Privacy/Security Alert sponsoried a 90-minute audio seminar, New Opportunities and Approaches for Patient De-Identification in Healthcare.

The 90-minute seminar explains new approaches to de-identifying records for research, public health activities, EMRs and healthcare administration, including free open-source software.

Participants are briefed on:

  • The latest regulatory and legal developments governing data de-identification;
  • Free open source software created at Harvard that may provide an affordable way to share patient data for research;
  • New methods for record linkage after de-identification;
  • How data de-identification reduces compliance problems;
  • Key decisions in developing de-identified records programs;
    and more.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN
  • HIPAA Privacy Officers
  • HIPAA Security Officers
  • Healthcare Payers
  • Providers
  • Clearinghouses
  • Researchers
  • IRBs
  • Biomedical Product Manufacturers
  • QA Professionals
  • Electronic Records Professionals
  • Health Data Exchanges
  • HIM Professionals
  • Public Health Officials
  • Healthcare Attorneys
  • Healthcare Consultants
FACULTY

  • Peter Swire, Clinton Administration's Chief Counselor for Privacy and the C. William O'Neill Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, the Ohio State University

  • Jeff Jonas, Chief Scientist and IBM Distinguished Engineer, Entity Analytic Solutions, Software Group, IBM

  • Dr. Bruce Beckwith, MD, Harvard Medical School and developer of open-source software for pathologists

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS FOR CDs

    • All seminar participants will receive a certificate of participation
    • 1.5 IAPP Credits
ORDERING INFORMATION

  • The CD recording with all course materials: $275.00.

ORDER AT WWW.MELAMEDIA.COM
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 Download the form here and fax it to (703) 619.4912
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