Secure Exchange of Electronic Health Information Demonstration Project
Project Objective: Healthcare providers increasingly need to securely exchange electronic health information with each other. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this information must be protected. Secure exchange of electronic health information is often particularly challenging for small healthcare providers, who may lack the security infrastructure or expertise that larger healthcare providers have. Other challenges with secure electronic health information exchange include the variety of client devices (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices) and the range of healthcare data exchange standards.
Major security concerns for secure electronic health information exchange include the following categories:
- Lack of physical security controls (e.g., increased risk of loss or theft for mobile devices, public proximity to client devices);
- Use of untrusted client devices (lack of security features or circumvention of those features);
- Use of untrusted networks (e.g., broadband, WiFi, WiMAX, cellular networks);
- Interaction with other systems in terms of data synchronization and storage.
Although a number of components are available to address some of these concerns in some healthcare environments, security platforms that are composed of available capabilities in a secure, usable, and affordable manner to provide comprehensive solutions are needed for the very large number of small, medium and large healthcare providers. The goal for this project is to provide a security platform to enable healthcare providers to exchange electronic health information in support of the health IT community.
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