In the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s recently published public comments on its draft for nationwide interoperability, health data privacy and security were top issues for several organizations, HealthITSecurity reports. The office released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Draft Version 1.0 in January, and in the public comments, accepted through April 3, many agencies said they were in favor of interoperability and data exchanges but that providers “must be interoperable without sacrificing patient privacy in the process,” the report states. Intel submitted that privacy and security protections must be addressed holistically through “effective end-to-end security” to protect against exploitations like cybercrime.
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