The Brooklyn HIE's Security Strategy
How the Network's Privacy Protections
Will Evolve

Howard Anderson, Managing Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
July 8, 2010

The nation's healthcare information exchanges must focus on privacy and security as they develop new functions and features, says Irene Koch, executive director of the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange, also known as BHIX.

In an exclusive interview, Koch describes the HIE’s:

• Use of encryption, which will evolve as BHIX enables physicians to access the exchange directly from their electronic health records systems;
• Approach to verifying the identities of those sending and receiving information;
  
• Policies for gaining patient permission for sharing information;
  
• Plans for working with providers to give patients an accounting of who has viewed their information; and
  
• Collaboration with other HIEs in the state on the broader security issues that will emerge when the exchanges are linked.

Click here. to read the entire interview transcript.