This case study, thus, suggests that, to protect sensitive patient information, health care organizations should build safe organizational contexts for complex health information systems in addition to complying with good information security practice and regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
Linklaters & Alliance, an English law firm, has designed a program for investment banks to sift information on securities regulations around the world.
As one example, E-Health CIs are patient-centric community-serving systems that have particular regulations for information security, governance, resource management, scalability, and maintainability.
Taking appropriate action to ensure that the budget for any fiscal year, as submitted by the President to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, sets forth separately the amounts required in the budget for such fiscal year for compliance by the Department with Federal law and regulations governing information security, including this subchapter and subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44.
Then there are activities around compliance and regulations and information security.
"The Ambassador's requirements for use of commercial e-mail in the office and his flouting of direct instructions to adhere to Department policy have placed the information management staff in a conundrum: balancing the desire to be responsive to their mission leader and the need to adhere to Department regulations and government information security standards," the IG report said.
In the United States, confidentiality and security regulations regarding medical information are governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [ 15].
To comply with these regulations, MIT implements a Written Information Security Program (WISP) that includes specific requirements for those who handle the personal information of others.
Economically sensitive information can be protected with the help of security regulations [45].
