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August 2007 Health Webcasts

• Aug 5: Spotlight on Massachusetts

• Aug 30 - Health Information Technology and Privacy

Project HITCh at Annual Meeting: Health Information Technology and Health Care Quality: Spotlight on Massachusetts
Sunday, August 5

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How is Massachusetts using HIT to improve health care quality? The Massachusetts health data consortium has been credited as one of the very few to achieve financial sustainability. The Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative is striving to make electronic health records a reality throughout the Bay State. Learn about some of the most successful and innovative programs in the country from the people responsible for making them work.

Chair and moderator
Joe Flores, VA
Senator Richard Moore, MA

Speakers:
Ray Campbell [ Presentation]
Executive Director & CEO
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium

Micky Tripathi [ Presentation]
President & CEO
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

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Health Information Technology and Privacy
Thursday, August 30 

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The electronic exchange of health information presents many privacy issues that need to be tackled.  Consumers fear their health data will be stolen and each report of lost social security numbers and other personal information only compounds these fears.  Providers are anxious about liability for the accidental disclosure of consumers health data.  What role do state legislatures have in solving the security and privacy concerns wrapped in the exchange of health information?

A member of State Alliance for e-Health’s Taskforce on Health Information Protection Taskforce will discuss the Taskforce work in this area.  In addition you will hear the results of the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) project which worked with 34 states and territories to “assess variations in organization-level business practices, policies, and State laws that affect electronic health information exchange and to identify and propose practical ways to reduce the variation to those "good" practices that will permit interoperability while preserving the necessary privacy and security requirements set by the local community.”

Speakers:
Linda L. Dimitropoulos,
Director, Health Services Survey Research
Survey and Computing Sciences
RTI International

JoAnn Lamphere,
Member State Alliance for e-Health Heath Information Protection Taskforce
National Coordinator, State Health and LTC Team
Government Relations and Advocacy
AARP

Alison Rein,
Member State Alliance for e-Health Heath Information Protection Taskforce
Senior Associate
AcademyHealth

Event Resources:
 Event Slides

Related Links:
HISPC final report 
Health Information Protection Taskforce report to the State Alliance for e-Health 
Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration Toolkit

 

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