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FHIR Security and Privacy - tutorial outline

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Rene asked for an outline of Security topics for FHIR for an upcoming tutorial he is giving. The easy answer is go read all my blog articles under the #FHIR topic The second easy answer is to point at the FHIR security pages. There are efforts underway to create a Privacy Consent Directive modeled in FHIR.

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FHIR Security: Do (Not) Worry

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I have been asked quite often to explain how to secure FHIR. The basics of Security for FHIR are written up on the FHIR Specification. Don’t worry about security The first answer is the one I give to those in HL7 that are working on developing FHIR, or just getting their feet wet learning FHIR. Not too big.

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FHIR Oauth Scope

Healthcare Exchange Standards

As FHIR matures, the security topic becomes more and more important. In fact the specification they have " FHIR OAuth 2 " is not open for review, yet. It is made up of a set of strings that represent a few FHIR resources. It is not a complete list of FHIR resource types.

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MHD Connectathon Results

Healthcare Exchange Standards

IHE Connectathon did informal testing of Mobile access to Health Documents (aka #MHD - #XDS on #FHIR. MHD has a wide variety of deployment models, leveraging the simplicity of HTTP REST and the data model and interaction model defined in FHIR. Each of these we discussed how to resolve. For more on mHealth

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Mobile Health Cloud vs Privacy Regulations

Healthcare Exchange Standards

There is some strong discussion going on at HL7 around privacy concerns, especially now that HL7 FHIR has enabled easy application writing. The discussion started with an article " Warning mHealth security fears are opening doors to app and device innovation " summarizing a study done by Ketchum.

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Apple’s Health Records App: A Ripple or a Roar?

mHealth Insight

mHealth Insight. If they bring something to the table that inspires consumers to care (and Apple knows how to do this), that could be transformational” I’ve found lots of Doctors mistakenly think statements like “Medical record data is not that compelling from a consumer perspective” are valid. Or so it seems.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). mHealth Insights. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., More than 40% of U.S.