AMIA urges national solutions to secondary data use
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, September 25, 2006
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The access to and use of aggregated data is an increasing challenge as electronic health records and health information exchange initiatives take hold, according to a report issued September 11 by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
In its report, Toward a National Framework for the Secondary Use of Health Data the AMIA concludes that a national framework for the secondary use of health data that includes a robust infrastructure of policies, standards, and best practices is necessary to ensure legitimate use of health data.
The report includes several recommendations toward this end, including the following:
- Increase the transparency of data use and public awareness
- Focus ongoing discussions on data access, use, and control (rather than data ownership)
- Continue discussions on privacy and security with regard to the secondary use of health data
- Increase public awareness efforts on the benefits and challenges associated with the secondary use of health data
- Create a taxonomy of the secondary use of health data
Click here to read the AMIA paper.
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