New Privacy & Security Tiger Team formed
Meets June 10-11, 2010:
Initial Focus on NHIN Direct Message Handling Process
Emailed notice from Office of Nat’l Coordinator for Health IT
June 9, 2010
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has organized a workgroup (subcommittee) under the auspices of the HIT Policy Committee to move forward on a range of privacy and security issues.”
“A new Privacy & Security Tiger Team (comprised of members from the HIT Policy Committee and the HIT Standards Committee as well as National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics) will work over the next few months to address the requirements of HITECH and the needs of many new organizations created under that law.”
“This workgroup is chaired” by Deven McGraw, Center for Democracy & Technology; and co-chaired byPaul Egerman. ”We expect the work of the Tiger Team to be completed by late fall 2010.” (Chair names corrected per ONC site.)
“Please note the workgroup will meet tomorrow (6/10) and Friday (6/11). Visit the ONC website at http://healthit.hhs.gov/facas for a P&S Tiger Team Member List and dates/times for public participation info for the meetings. ”
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Howard Anderson, Managing Editor of HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, reported on June 9, 2010, in a story headlined “New Advisory Group Will Focus on Data Exchange Policies,” that the initial plan is for the group to take a narrow focus and complete it by the end of the summer, unless its mission is extended. Anderson provides a good overview.
HIT Policy Committee
Privacy & Security Tiger Team Members
- Deven McGraw, Center for Democracy & Technology, Co-Chair
- Paul Egerman, Co-Chair
- Dixie Baker, SAIC
- Christine Bechtel, National Partnership for Women & Families
- Rachel Block, NYS Department of Health
- Neil Calman, The Institute for Family Health
- Carol Diamond, Markle Foundation
- Judy Faulkner, EPIC Systems Corp.
- Gayle Harrell, Consumer Representative/Florida
- John Houston, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; NCVHS
- David Lansky, Pacific Business Group on Health
- David McCallie, Cerner Corp.
- Wes Rishel, Gartner
- Micky Tripathi, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
- Latanya Sweeney, Carnegie Mellon University
June 10, 2010 – 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Agenda [PDF - 19 KB]
NHIN POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK [PDF - 124 KB]
2:00 p.m. Call to Order – Judy Sparrow, ONC
2:05 p.m. Introductions & Overview of Agenda [Primary Issue: NHIN Direct Message Handling Policy]
–Deven McGraw, Chair
–Paul Egerman, Co-Chair
2:15 p.m. Level of Policy Recommendations – Deven McGraw
2:30 p.m. Overarching Issues Raised by NHIN Direct – Paul Egerman -
–Centralization/Decentralization Issue
–Degree of PHI Exposure
–Policies with Respect to HISPs
–Granularity of Responsibility—entity vs. individual clinician – Deven McGraw
3:30 p.m. Frameworks Discussion – Deven McGraw
3:45 p.m. Public Comment
4:00 p.m. Adjourn
NOTE: Link to NCVHS sensitive data hearing
http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/100615ag.htm
June 11, 2010 – 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m./ET
Agenda [PDF - 13 KB]
Point to Point Exchange Risk Levels [PDF]
10:30 a.m. Call to Order – Judy Sparrow, ONC
10:35 a.m. Review of Agenda – Deven McGraw and Paul Egerman
10:45 a.m. Overview of NHIN Exchange – ONC
11:00 a.m. Continued Discussion of Message Handling Policy Issues, con’t Paul Egerman
1:00 p.m. Frameworks Discussion, con’t – Deven McGraw
1:45 p.m. Public Comment
2:00 p.m. Adjourn
NHIN POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK [PDF – 124 KB
Policy Principles
1. Individual Access
2. Correction
3. Openness and Transparency
4. Individual choice
5. Collection, Use and Disclosure Limitation
6. Data Integrity and Quality
7. Safeguards
8. Accountability
Technology Principles
1. Keep it simple
2. Keep the implementation cost as low as possible
3. Donʼt let “perfect” be the enemy of “good enough”
4. Design for the little guy
5. Do not try to create a one-size-fits-all standard
6. Separate content and transmission standards.
7. Create publicly available vocabularies & code sets
8. Leverage the web for transport (“health internet”).
9. Position quality measures so they motivate standards adoption.
10. Support implementers
To participate:
Via Webcast
Audio:
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