Monday, May 24, 2010   1:00 to 2:30pm ET
NHIN 104: The Trust Fabric of the NHIN:
Making Exchange a Good Choice

Excerpted  from National E-Health Collaborative
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Students will learn about: (1) the national-level model trust framework that has been developed to help enable the safe and secure exchange of electronic health information over the Internet; and (2) how the NHIN Exchange has established trust among its participants.

Presentation Slides
Recorded Webinar

The NHIN Workgroup of the HIT Policy Committee has recommended that it is the role of the government to “establish and maintain a framework of trust, including ensuring adequate privacy and security protections to enable health information exchange.” The Workgroup has found that there is a need for the adoption of an overarching trust framework at the national level that includes these essential elements:

–Agreed Upon Business, Policy and Legal Requirements/Expectations
–Transparent Oversight
–Accountability and Enforcement
–Identity and Authenticatio
–Identification of Minimum Technical Requirements

The Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement (DURSA) and the NHIN Coordinating Committee Operating Policies & Procedures are examples that will be discussed of how the NHIN Exchange meets these trust requirements.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: By participating in this NHIN University class, participants will become familiar with:

–Key components of trust and why they are important
–How the NHIN Exchange trust fabric maps to the key trust components
–Efforts to harmonize the NHIN Exchange trust components with the rest of the NHIN ecosystem, such as state-level HIEs and the NHIN Direct project

DATE: Monday, May 24, 2010
TIME: 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET

 FACULTY:
–Mariann Yeager – NHIN Policy & Governance Lead (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
–Steve Gravely, JD – Troutman Sanders LLP

MODERATOR:
–Aaron Seib - NHIN Program Director, National eHealth Collaborative