Op-ed—Beyond HIPAA: Maintaining the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Records
This blog is part of our celebration of National Health IT Week. Here, Associate Professor of Health Information Management Maggie Foley explores the evolving challenge of securing patient health information relating to substance use disorders.
Health informatics professionals continually work to ensure health information is secure, private, accurate and available where and when needed.
The need to share and secure information for the coordination of healthcare service is of particular importance for patients with substance use disorders (SUD). Patients with SUD not only exper...