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2000 CIS H 70136
TITLE: Changing
Face of Healthcare in the Electronic Age
CIS-NO: 2000-H701-36
SOURCE: Committee on Science. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Mar. 30, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+96 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1025-A-01; 1025-A-02
SUDOC: Y4.SCI2:106-73
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-15920
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-73. Hearing
before the Subcom on Technology to examine issues related to healthcare
information technology (IT) system security and
privacy.
Supplementary material (p. 78-96)
includes witnesses' written replies to Subcom questions.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Medical info
confidentiality and security issues
DESCRIPTORS:
MEDICAL REGULATION; HEALTH FACILITIES
AND SERVICES; INFORMATION SERVICES AND SYSTEMS; RIGHT OF
PRIVACY; COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SECURITY
00-H701-36 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Mar. 30, 2000 p. 8-96
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
KAMMER,
RAYMOND G., JR. (Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST))
LORTON, LEWIS (Acting Administrator, Forum on
Privacy & Security in Healthcare)
HODGE, JEFFERY L. (Vice President, Healthcare Initiatives,
DataCert.com)
HEDGES, GREGORY E. (Partner, Technology Risk
Consulting, Arthur Andersen)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Overview of NIST initiatives related to healthcare IT
system security and privacy; importance of Federal role in
efforts to ensure healthcare information security; perspectives
on use of security technologies to protect patient medical
record information.
Need to establish
specific standards for electronic health information on the
Internet (related doc, p. 56-63); elaboration on healthcare IT system security
standards and related issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical info technology system security
issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
ANDERSEN
WORLDWIDE; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
