The Healthcare Trust Institute

The Healthcare Trust Institute will be sponsoring a Capitol Hill briefing on Tuesday, July 30 to explore how companies are using cutting-edge technologies to better protect patients’ sensitive health information. This briefing on “Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Healthcare” will feature expert speakers from Datavant, Premier Inc. and Privacy Analytics, an IQVIA company and will take place from noon to 1 p.m., ET in Room 2043 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Lunch will be provided. To RSVP, email [email protected] or use the QR code on the flyer below.

I was very pleased today to bring the perspectives of the Healthcare Trust Institute to a panel discussion on “Advancing Health Devices and Services in the Connected Home,” sponsored by the Consumer Technology Association and Connectivity Standards Alliance. It is vital that consumers have access to innovative health care technologies that will allow them to stay in the comfort of their own homes. For this to work, though, patients must have confidence that their health information is only being shared with the health care professionals and people they trust. This necessitates two critical actions: First, workable, risk-based security standards harmonized across federal agencies and state lines, similar to the framework created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Patients need to trust that companies are able to protect data from cybercriminals. And, second, we need to trust that our data is protected and respected by the companies providing in-home technologies. This requires a workable national privacy law that preempts conflicting state laws and is consistent with the HIPAA framework. This will keep our information from entities and people who should have no access to it while ensuring that our doctors and caregivers can get the data they need from these devices. I want to thank my fellow panelists – Steven Posnack of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Michael Philips of AARP and Lee Levin of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) for an excellent discussion.

Today in Health Affairs Forefront: Tina Grande, founding CEO of the The Healthcare Trust Institute, and Deven McGraw, Co-Founder and Chief Regulatory & Privacy Officer of Ciitizen are offering policy solutions to protect patients and consumers from having their medical records misused in lucrative data marketplaces. https://lnkd.in/eb3xW4hc

Thank you, Tim Noonan, Deputy Director for Health Information Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity, from OCR, for an informative presentation on recent HIPAA-related issues to HTI members! We are astounded by the numbers - 101% increase in breaches of health information from 2018-2023, and an 853% increase in individuals affected. Harmonizing cyber reporting requirements across government will help us manage this enormous problem.

The Healthcare Trust Institute (HTI) is pleased to join the LinkedIn community! HTI members, which include companies and organizations from across the U.S. healthcare economy, have a shared interest in responsible and forward-thinking data policy including health information privacy, cybersecurity and issues surrounding AI. HTI members include some of the most respected names in American healthcare -- the Association of Clinical Research Organizations, AdventHealth, American Health Information Management Association, Amazon, American Hospital Association, Ascension, Cotiviti, Datavant, Elevance Health, EMD Serono, Epic, Federation of American Hospitals, IQVIA, Kaiser Permanente, Marshfield Clinic Health System, McKesson, Oracle, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, Siemens, Surescripts, Texas Health Resources, and UnitedHealth Group. Watch this space for developments, perspectives and commentary on health data policy and come visit us at https://lnkd.in/dVrEeHBt.