Team for Research in
Ubiquitous Secure Technology

Citation
Dan Masys. "Electronic Medical Records and Secure Patient Portals". Technical report, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, October, 2005; White paper from Design Workshop for an Integrative Project related to Patient Portals December 16, 2005, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN..

Abstract
Substantial opportunities exist to advance the state of the art for the creation, maintenance and access to one’s personal health information in electronic form. While other information-intensive industries have developed and deployed standards-based, secure information infrastructures, healthcare in the U.S. has been characterized as a ‘trillion dollar cottage industry’ that is still dependent upon paper records and fragmented, errorprone approaches to service delivery. Widely cited reports of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council have documented weaknesses in information security related to healthcare [NRC 1997], the costs and impact of medical errors (a substantial proportion of which involve a component of information mismanagement) [IOM 2000], lack of a systems approach to complex, team-oriented interdisciplinary care [IOM 2001], and the unrealized potential of using the Internet to improve the quality and availability of health care services [NRC 2002].

Electronic downloads

• http://dbmi.mc.vanderbilt.edu/trust/TRUST_for_patient_portals.pdf

• HTML

  Dan Masys. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/139.html"
  ><i>Electronic Medical Records and Secure Patient
  Portals</i></a>, Technical report,  Vanderbilt
  University Medical Center, October, 2005; White paper from 
  <a href="http://dbmi.mc.vanderbilt.edu/trust/"
  >Design Workshop for an Integrative Project related to
  Patient Portals
  December 16, 2005, Vanderbilt University,
  Nashville, TN.</a>.

• Plain text

  Dan Masys. "Electronic Medical Records and Secure
  Patient Portals". Technical report,  Vanderbilt
  University Medical Center, October, 2005; White paper from 
  <a href="http://dbmi.mc.vanderbilt.edu/trust/"
  >Design Workshop for an Integrative Project related to
  Patient Portals
  December 16, 2005, Vanderbilt University,
  Nashville, TN.</a>.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{Masys05_ElectronicMedicalRecordsSecurePatientPortals,
      author = {Dan Masys},
      title = {Electronic Medical Records and Secure Patient
                Portals},
      institution = {Vanderbilt University Medical Center},
      month = {October},
      year = {2005},
      note = {White paper from 
  <a
                href="http://dbmi.mc.vanderbilt.edu/trust/"
                >Design Workshop for an Integrative Project
                related to Patient Portals
  December 16, 2005,
                Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.</a>},
      abstract = {Substantial opportunities exist to advance the
                state of the art for the creation, maintenance and
                access to one’s personal health information in
                electronic form. While other information-intensive
                industries have developed and deployed
                standards-based, secure information
                infrastructures, healthcare in the U.S. has been
                characterized as a ‘trillion dollar cottage
                industry’ that is still dependent upon paper
                records and fragmented, errorprone approaches to
                service delivery. Widely cited reports of the
                Institute of Medicine and National Research
                Council have documented weaknesses in information
                security related to healthcare [NRC 1997], the
                costs and impact of medical errors (a substantial
                proportion of which involve a component of
                information mismanagement) [IOM 2000], lack of a
                systems approach to complex, team-oriented
                interdisciplinary care [IOM 2001], and the
                unrealized potential of using the Internet to
                improve the quality and availability of health
                care services [NRC 2002].},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/139.html}
  }
  

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