Description: In this video Brian R. Balow Member of OnlineTech Webinar talking about Security and Privacy Concerns with Patient Portals.
Overview: Definitions - "Patient Portals" and "Personal Health Records", Drivers for Adoption and Use, Identifying and Managing Risks.
Patient Portal:
Patient Portals are healthcare-related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers, such as physicians and hospitals. Typically, portal services are available on the Internet at all hours of the day and night. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone web sites and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing web site of a healthcare provider. Still others are modules added onto an existing electronic medical record (EMR) system. What all of these services share is the ability of patients to interact with their medical information via the Internet. Currently, the lines between an EMR, a personal health record, and a patient portal are blurring. For example, Intuit Health and Microsoft HealthVault describe themselves as personal health records (PHRs), but they can interface with EMRs and communicate through the Continuity of Care Record standard, displaying patient data on the Internet so it can be viewed through a patient portal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_portal
Personal Health Record:
A personal health record, or PHR, is a health record where health data and information related to the care of a patient is maintained by the patient.[1] This stands in contrast to the more widely used electronic medical record, which is operated by institutions (such as hospitals) and contains data entered by clinicians or billing data to support insurance claims. The intention of a PHR is to provide a complete and accurate summary of an individual's medical history which is accessible online. The health data on a PHR might include patient-reported outcome data, lab results, data from devices such as wireless electronic weighing scales or collected passively from a smartphone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_health_record
Tags: security , health , data , information , privacy ,
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