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- ItemMedia attitudes vs. use: the contribution of context to the communication environment in telemedicine.(2003-05-14) Turner, Jeanine Warisse; Robinson, James D; Alaoui, Adil; Winchester, James; Neustadtl, Alan; Levine, Betty A; Collmann, Jeff; Mun, Seong KMedia attitudes and media use have been the focus of considerable academic research This article uses this research to explore patient and health care practitioner attitudes toward telemedicine interactions via videoconferencing technology
- ItemOrganizing safety: conditions for successful information assurance programs.(2005-01-14) Collmann, Jeff; Coleman, Johnathan; Sostrom, Kristen; Wright, WillieOrganizations must continuously seek safety When considering computerized health information systems safety includes protecting the integrity confidentiality and availability of information assets such as patient information key components of the technical information system and critical personnel High Reliability Theory HRT argues that organizations with strong leadership support continuous training redundant safety mechanisms and cultures of high reliability can deploy and safely manage complex risky technologies such as nuclear weapons systems or computerized health information systems In preparation for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA of 1996 the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs the Offices of the Surgeons General of the United States Army Navy and Air Force and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center TATRC US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command sponsored organizational doctrinal and technical projects that individually and collectively promote conditions for a culture of information assurance These efforts include sponsoring the P3 Working Group P3WG an interdisciplinary tri service taskforce that reviewed all relevant Department of Defense DoD Miliary Health System MHS Army Navy and Air Force policies for compliance with the HIPAA medical privacy and data security regulations supporting development training and deployment of OCTAVE sm a self directed information security risk assessment process and sponsoring development of the Risk Information Management Resource RIMR a Web enabled enterprise portal about health information assurance
- ItemSafe teleradiology: information assurance as project planning methodology.(2005-01-06) Collmann, Jeff; Alaoui, Adil; Nguyen, Dan; Lindisch, DavidThe Georgetown University Medical Center Department of Radiology used a tailored version of OCTAVE a self directed information security risk assessment method to design a teleradiology system that complied with the regulation implementing the security provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA of 1996 The system addressed threats to and vulnerabilities in the privacy and security of protected health information By using OCTAVE Georgetown identified the teleradiology program s critical assets described threats to the assurance of those assets developed and ran vulnerability scans of a system pilot evaluated the consequences of security breaches and developed a risk management plan to mitigate threats to program assets thereby implementing good information assurance practices This case study illustrates the basic point that prospective comprehensive planning to protect the privacy and security of an information system strategically benefits program management as well as system security