Privacy Lessons Learned from an Operational Electronic Health Record and Health Information Exchange
This FairWarning® webinar was completed on June 8th, 2011.
Title: Privacy Lessons Learned from an Operational Electronic Health Record and Health Information Exchange
Date Conducted: Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Speaker
Ted Boyle is a former Data Protection and IT Security Officer with NHS Lothian. Ted Boyle joined the NHS in 1996 after a successful career in the Royal Air Force. In 2001, he became responsible for the team of staff managing a Patient Administration System covering two of the United Kingdom’s larger teaching Hospitals. During the next 10 years this system was updated to form a full Electronic Health Record. Ted now has his own consultancy specialising in Information Governance in the health arena.
Overview
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) at NHS Lothian holds 1.25 million records, is used by 23,000 staff in 4 major Hospitals, including the busiest ER in the UK, and 150 other locations across the South East of Scotland. Ted Boyle was responsible for the management and audit of all the clinical applications as well as the security of the infrastructure which hosted the applications. During the webinar, Ted will share his approach to patient privacy in an EHR and HIE, review lessons learned that led to the need for patient privacy auditing, and the benefits of automated privacy monitoring.
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