Press release regarding electronic medical records.

Harris Interactive

U.S. Department of Health Unique Health Identifier for Individuals

A White Paper
Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
More Government webpages on health identifier cards

Determination of the G-8 regarding health ID cards

http://www.sesam-vitale.fr/html/projets/g8/g8_groups.htm
http://www.va.gov/card/
http://www.va.gov/card/links.htm

Security: AMA, Internet ID systems for physicians

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3133.html

Background
Frequently Asked Questions
AMA e-Health Initiatives
HIPAA Links
VeriSign Healthcare Trust Services
PKI - The VeriSign Difference
Securing Electronic Information in Healthcare Organizations

XML-Signature Syntax and Processing

Can smart cards ever fulfill the requirements?

 IP Smart Cards in the (Not So) Distant Future  
(HTML)

 IP Smart Cards in the (Not So) Distant Future  
(Adobe file to download)

Medical Record Privacy

http://www.epic.org/privacy/medical/

About digital ID's

http://www.verisign.com/repository/

Reports about errors in the healthcare systems

National Academics News 11,29,1999
Boston Globe, 7,25,2001
To Err is Human...advance copy of a dramatic book
http://www.leapfroggroup.org/

Statement on healthcare fraud

Health Care Fraud Costs Consumers $30 Billion a Year

Enormous damage for society: verdicts

Runaway Verdicts

National Patient Safety Foundation www.npsf.org

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices www.ismp.org 

The Institute Of Medicine www.iom.edu

U.S. Pharmacopoeia www.usp.org

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality www.ahrq.gov

The Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) www.quic.gov

The National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting (NQF)

www.qualityforum.org
http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/index.htm
Medicare Curbing Payment Error Rate

White Paper: Future of HIPAA as a Policy, Strategy and Technology
(Analysis from IBM about the HIPAA. Adobe File)

An excellent description about the system of e-prescriptions

(PDF format, requires the acrobat reader program)

http://admin.chcf.org/documents/ehealth/EPrescribing.pdf