Patient Provider E-mail 

• Practice Brief - E-mail Security from Journal of AHIMA
  
• Clinical Use of E-mail or Electronic Patient Centered Communication : Electronic mail can be very useful in patient care, provided one understands its limitations and adheres to guidelines. Danny Sands' page provides some very useful information.
• Electronic Patient-Physician Communication: Problems and Promise
• Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients from Journal of American Medical Informatics Association
• Digital Doctoring—Opportunities and Challenges in Electronic Patient-Physician Communication
  

Privacy, security, confidentiality and accountability in Information Systems

• Proposed Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Best Principles for Health Privacy
• The Caldicott Committee: Report on the review of patient-identifiable information - December 1997
• Information Systems and Public Sector Accountability
• Information technology in medical practice: Safety and privacy lessons from the United Kingdom
• National Healthkey Program

Reviews of Healthcare websites

• Health Info Design

On-line Journal Publishing

• Moving beyond journals: the future arrives with a crash: New ways to disseminate research from NIH and the BMJ
• The joy of being electronic: The BMJ's website is mushrooming
• Results of the BMJ's on-line questionnaire distributed 8-15 October 1998
  

Clinical Vocabularies

• Characteristics of a good nursing nomenclature from an informatics perspective
• UMLS Knowledge Source Server (password required)
• SNOMED-LOINC Connection
• SNOMED® RT AND READ CODES TO BE COMBINED INTO AN INTERNATIONAL TERMINOLOGY OF HEALTH
• READ Codes
  

Health Care Consumer Use of the Internet

• The Health Care Industry in Transition: The On-line Mandate to Change
• The Future of the Internet in Health Care: A Five-Year Forecast
• J. D. Power and Associates Health Information on the Internet
• E-Patients prefer E-Groups to Doctors for 10 of 12 Aspects of Health Care

HIPAA

DHHS offers additional details about the rules proposed under each section of HIPAA's Administrative Simplification provisions, in the form of "Frequently Asked Questions."

• The FAQ on Security and Electronic Signature Standards:
• The FAQ on Standards for Electronic Transactions:
• The FAQ on the Standard Employer Identifier:
• The FAQ on the National Provider Identifier:
• The FAQ on Code Sets:  
  
  

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