Privacy Consents and HIE-How IHE's Basic Patient Privacy Consents Profile Helps Manage Privacy in HIE

摘要

The potential benefits of health information exchange (HIE) are well documented, as are the privacy concerns of data sharing. In this new environment, patients are seeking increased control and transparency regarding how, with whom, and under what circumstances their electronic records are shared. Health IT standards are an important part of the effort to meet these needs.Standards make it easier to transmit clinical data from one electronic health record system to another, and they play an important role in the implementation of privacy policies across organizations. Widely used standards such as the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture can be used to help implement privacy management and control features in an HIE. However, there are various ways these standards can be applied for this purpose.