How will individual privacy be protected if public records are placed on a local, state, or national computerized network?
Individual health information and overall privacy is protected under The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (Public Law 104-191) of 1996, which began taking effect in the fall of 2002 and that calls for the protection of confidentiality and security of health data through setting and enforcing standards. Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) CFR 21 Part 11 regulations apply to any electronic records. Each local organization is responsible for protecting Health information (e.g., patient/individual privacy). Because each organization has a different technical infrastructure, proper security for the storing, transmitting, receiving, electronic health records is the individual organization responsibility. However, various government agencies and organizations (e.g., FDA, NCVHS, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), AMIA, CHIM, CHIME, and HIMSS) have created recommendations to assist organization maintain proper and effective security pro
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