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Physician PDA Use and the HIPAA Privacy Rule

Author(s) -

Paul Pancoast,

Timothy B. Patrick,

Joyce A. Mitchell

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1197/jamia.m1388

Subject(s) - patient privacy , identifier , medical emergency , internet privacy , protected health information , meaningful use , health care , unique identifier , electronic health record , medicine , masking (illustration) , computer science , nursing , public health , health policy , economics , economic growth , art , hrhis , visual arts , programming language

Physicians need better access to information when making patient care decisions. Hospitals should allow electronic data transfers to physician PDAs to improve patient care, and physicians must institute measures to secure the confidentiality of patient information on their PDAs. By explicitly excluding copies from their designated record set, hospitals need not maintain copies or track access of information on personally owned PDAs.

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