Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy - Hardcover

Donaldson, Molla S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0309049954 ISBN 13: 9780309049955

Publisher: Natl Academy Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Regional health care databases are being established around the country with the goal of providing timely and useful information to policymakers, physicians, and patients. But their emergence is raising important and sometimes controversial questions about the collection, quality, and appropriate use of health care data. Based on experience with databases now in operation and in development, Health Data in the Information Age provides a clear set of guidelines and principles for exploiting the potential benefits of aggregated health data--without jeopardizing confidentiality. A panel of experts identifies characteristics of emerging health database organizations (HDOs). The committee explores how HDOs can maintain the quality of their data, what policies and practices they should adopt, how they can prepare for linkages with computer-based patient records, and how diverse groups from researchers to health care administrators might use aggregated data. Health Data in the Information Age offers frank analysis and guidelines that will be invaluable to anyone interested in the operation of health care databases.

About this title

Synopsis

Provides a set of guidelines for realizing the potential benefits of the regional health care databases that are being established throughout the country without jeopardizing the confidentiality of personal health data. Explores how the database organizations can maintain the quality of their data, what policies and practices they should adopt, how

About the Author

Molla S. Donaldson and Kathleen N. Lohr, Editors; Committee on Regional Health Data Networks, Institute of Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309049954
• ISBN 13: 9780309049955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Lohr Kathleen N.