In this article, we discuss the methods, benefits, and limitations of encrypting data at rest. While encrypting data at rest can be a useful component in a data security toolbox, it must be implemented with a full understanding of the protection it does (and does not) provide.
There has been a
shift away from geographic-based/dominated HIEs to product-dominated HIEs. What does this mean for public health, especially when most public health data exchange happens on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis?
Read The Interoperability of Things, an essay about the state of health data interoperability in the US published recently in JHIM.
Most public health information technology projects rely on strong collaboration to be successful, especially across vendor-client boundaries. In this article we identify some additional successful strategies.
Categorical funding, insufficient resources, and lack of agency vision keep public health systems isolated and unintegrated – a phenomenon often referred to as “siloed” systems. This pair of articles tries to re-conceive this notion not once, but twice.
