Accountability in healthcare organizations and systems.

Enabling Robust Information Accountability in E-healthcare Systems

In the United States, the transition from traditional paperbased healthcare records to electronic healthcare record (EHR) systems is being promoted aggressively. While EHR systems offer a number of benefits, they will introduce new security and privacy concerns. A significant fraction of such threats, at least in part, arise due to actions of insiders of healthcare organizations, either acciden...

Are you ready for an OCR audit?

Proposed rules aimed at strengthening HIPAA privacy and security requirements have put CIOs and security officers at provider organizations on alert. Experts weigh in on how the changes will play out and what it means for provider organizations.

Canadian chief executive officers' prescription for higher quality: more clinical engagement, shared accountability and capacity development.

uality of Healthcare in Canada: A Chartbook, published by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) in 2010, showed that when compared with other developed countries, Canada ranks in the middle of the pack with respect to healthcare quality. How we can best achieve higher-quality care is a much-debated issue in Canada and in most modern healthcare systems – and there are many con...

Policy Capacity in the Learning Healthcare System; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries