Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy [Hardcover]

Molla S. Donaldson (Author), Kathleen N. Lohr (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994 | ISBN-10: 0309049954 | ISBN-13: 978-0309049955

Regional health care databases are being established around the country with the goal of providing timely and useful information to policymakers, physicians, and patients. But their emergence is raising important and sometimes controversial questions about the collection, quality, and appropriate use of health care data. This book provides a clear set of guidelines and principles for exploiting the potential benefits of aggregated health data--without jeopardizing confidentiality. Index.

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Book Description

Regional health care databases are being established around the country with the goal of providing timely and useful information to policymakers, physicians, and patients. But their emergence is raising important and sometimes controversial questions about the collection, quality, and appropriate use of health care data.
Based on experience with databases now in operation and in development, Health Data in the Information Age provides a clear set of guidelines and principles for exploiting the potential benefits of aggregated health data--without jeopardizing confidentiality.
A panel of experts identifies characteristics of emerging health database organizations (HDOs). The committee explores how HDOs can maintain the quality of their data, what policies and practices they should adopt, how they can prepare for linkages with computer-based patient records, and how diverse groups from researchers to health care administrators might use aggregated data.
Health Data in the Information Age offers frank analysis and guidelines that will be invaluable to anyone interested in the operation of health care databases. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Molla S. Donaldson and Kathleen N. Lohr, Editors; Committee on Regional Health Data Networks, Institute of Medicine --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Natl Academy Pr (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0309049954
• ISBN-13: 978-0309049955
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,891,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)