ACCENTURE : Finds Information Governance Framework Needed to Guide E-Health Investments and Strategy
08/12/2010| 08:05am US/Eastern
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According to a new report from Accenture (NYSE: ACN), healthcare
organizations planning large investments in e-health solutions face
challenges in five interrelated disciplines of information governance –
data privacy, confidentiality, security, quality and integrity.
The report, Information
Governance: The Foundation for Effective e-Health, details and
explores specific targets for the five disciplines and provides an
actionable framework that healthcare organizations, such as care
providers, insurers, and public health organizations can use to perform
a high-level assessment of their current information management
situation, challenges and opportunities. The objective is to ensure
investments in e-health are supporting strategic goals of increasing
efficiency and reducing costs, reducing errors, and improving patient
outcomes. The target areas for evaluation explained in the report are:
Data Privacy
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Patient consent models and mechanisms
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Patient-provider relationship-based access controls
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Patient access controls
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Effective data security and data handling policies
Data Confidentiality
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Role-based access control models
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Patient and provider record sealing
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Identification and authentication
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Anonymization and pseudonymization
Data Security
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Message integrity and communications security
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Event audit and alerting
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IT security audit
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Network integrity
Data Quality
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Error correction
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Data validation
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System and interface certification
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Standards-driven architecture
Data Integrity
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Code integrity
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System hardening
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Interoperability governance
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Standards-driven architecture and standards management
The new report draws heavily on Accenture's experience supporting health
care organizations' efforts to transform administrative and clinical
systems, capture and manage data, develop evidence-based insights, and
connect fragmented health care systems.
?Health care organizations are making unprecedented investments in
e-health systems, and this new framework speaks to the practical but
rather complex implementation challenge, namely to ensure the
investments are successful,? said Mark Knickrehm, global managing
director of Accenture's health care practice. ?From working on e-health
implementations around the world, we have built and are sharing this
framework to help organizations address data privacy concerns, ensure
compliance with standards and regulations, maximize the value of
electronic health record systems, and support physician adoption.?
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with more than 190,000 people serving clients in
more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience,
comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions,
and extensive research on the world's most successful companies,
Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance
businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of
US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009. Its home page
is www.accenture.com.
Accenture
Jennifer Francis, +1 630-338-6426
Jennifer.Francis@accenture.com
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