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HITRUST

is a common security framework group overseeing Electronic Health Record management.Their stated goal is to :

• Reduce confusion by implementing a single framework across multiple organizations
• Increase confidence by consumers, regulators and legislators in the industry’s ability to address these issues and to proactively protect sensitive information and healthcare systems
• Establish a single standard for organizations for internal and external measurement
• Reduce the number and complexity of security audits or reviews that organizations impose upon their trading partners

They plan to enroll around 155 members by the end of Feb 2008 in order to implement their framework.One of the major concerns is that this group currently involves only Major health care service providers,no small HIT vendors or hospital networks are part of this core group. it is comprised of only large health corporations like CVS Caremark, Cisco Systems, GE Healthcare, Highmark Inc., Hospital Corporation of America, Humana, Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems Inc., Philips Healthcare and Pitney Bowes.


The Questions raised across blogs is Can a few companies implement a standard for security in a major domain like Health without involvement of all stakeholders?

Will it succeed? and what about Personal Health Records?

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Internet is considered to be one of the killer apps of this century just as computers where of last century.The rapid growth of Internet has made it possible today to get information about anything and everything at your finger tip.It has also leveled the world,in that you can have real time information about what is happening across the world at flick of your mouse button.
Search engines have played an significant role in rapid growth of internet as they offered us windows to wide wide world of Internet.But, in the world of medicine,there is still a large lacuna in management of information.although among all the other industrial sectors,
medicine is considered to be information intensive industry.Health Information Technologies can play a significant role as Information is considered mission critical in health care.

What could be the next killer app in health care industry?

As Computers played an important role in dissemination of information via digital format,the same could work with world of medicine.But,the cost of these computers are the rate limiting steps in widespread deployment in medical industry.
Now can low cost Laptop which was introduced recently as one laptop per child project play a Key role?

Low cost laptops without hard drive connected onto network with free operating system can play an important role in digitalization of medical data.

In future,clinicians can use these computers in their hospitals and medical centers to offer an complete digital format of medical data then the curre paper based system.

What are the barriers ?

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