Healthcare Information Privacy and Security: Regulatory Compliance and Data Security in the Age of Electronic Health Records

Introduction

This book is not about information security or healthcare information security in general. It is about electronic medical record (EMR) security—the difficult task of ensuring privacy and security in the evolving world of digitized patient data.

I receive so many urgent calls from people seeking assistance and guidance with their EMR security projects that I can’t begin to respond to them all. That unmet need motivated me to write this book to impart the methods I have found to work most successfully. Most of it I wrote in hotel rooms and airport lounges during my constant travels as an EMR consultant. I am still amazed (though no longer surprised) when I find myself sitting next to someone in an airport using EMR software. The other ...