Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
Lecture:Definitions of privacy, confidentiality, and security
Slide content:What Is the Role of Government? The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provided creation of the HIT Policy Committee and an HIT Standards Committee under the auspices of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Groups under these two committees include Privacy and Security Workgroup : Focus on policy issues and opportunities to ensure electronic data captured and exchanged is protected and shared consistent with consumer needs and expectations API Task Force : Identifies privacy and security concerns that are barriers to widespread adoption of open APIs in health care ONCs Federal Advisory Committee Process: https://www.healthit.gov/facas/sites/faca/files/develop-recommendations-SOP.pdf 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative: ONC was funded $5 million to support development of interoperability standards and requirements addressing privacy and enabling secure data exchange 15
Slide notes:One question to ask is, What is the role of government in protecting privacy and confidentiality? This discussion begins by looking at the United States and then moves to other countries. There are many state- and federal-level activities focused on privacy and security of PHI and data sharing. Under HITECH, two committees were formed: an HIT Policy Committee and an HIT Standards Committee. Two groups under these two committees focus on privacy and security. The Privacy and Security Workgroup, working under the HIT Policy Committee, provides input and makes recommendations on policy issues and opportunities to ensure that electronic data captured and exchanged is protected and shared only by means consistent with consumer needs and expectations. The API Task Force, working under the Health IT Joint Committee Collaboration, identifies both perceived and real privacy and security concerns that are barriers to the widespread adoption of open APIs in health care. Please visit the URL on the slide, which is a flow chart depicting ONCs Federal Advisory Committee Process for developing recommendations: https://www.healthit.gov/facas/sites/faca/files/develop-recommendations-SOP.pdf, outlines Several previous federally supported groups have produced many publications that focus on privacy and security. These include HISPC, which focused on multi-state harmonization, and the Privacy and Security Tiger Team, which developed policies and recommendations. Publications from these groups and others are found on the www.HealthIT.gov website. The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, or NCVHS [N-C-V-H-S], has weighed in over the years on a number of privacy and security issues with various publications and recommendations for policies concerning health privacy. Another example is the 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative. This initiative specifically provided ONC $5 million to support development of interoperability standards and requirements addressing privacy and enabling secure data exchange. 15