The widespread adoption of mobile devices in healthcare institutions, while beneficial, can create security concerns for medical practitioners, including physicians, nurses, and healthcare administrators. To understand how medical practitioners perceive the security risk associated with mobile devices, we developed a research model suggesting that a medical practitioner’s security risk percepti...

Since the collapse of the Clinton plan for large-scale health reform, Congress has approached the medical care sector of the economy very gingerly. One apparent lesson of the reform (though an obvious lesson in life) is that people are much less eager for improvements they have to pay for than for those that are supposed to come at zero cost. Once it became clear that the Clinton plan would hav...

HIPAA mandates that all healthcare data accessed or transmitted over open communications systems such as the Internet be encrypted While enclypting a digital x-ray before storage and decrypting it before viewing will not affect a hospital’s workfrow, the workjlow consequences of encryption on the large medical images (a single 500-slice MRIproduces a 68 MBJiIe) typically in use by a radiology d...

The Privacy Rule of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that clinical documents be stripped of personally identifying information before they can be released to researchers and others. We have been manually annotating clinical text since 2008 in order to test and evaluate an algorithmic clinical text de-identification tool, NLM Scrubber, which we have been devel...

Artificial Intelligence can play a key role in healthcare; however, due to patient confidentiality (HIPAA), we are unable to process this information without putting up some boundaries. This boundary comes in the form of RGB-D data; it prevents us from seeing a face or a distinguishing personal characteristic in videos. This project attempts to detect a person from any viewpoint in Stanford Hea...

Academic Health Centers (AAHC) reveal that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has serious and often detrimental effects on biomedical research. It is known that the U.S. is a global leader in biomedical discovery and that research conducted at academic health centers has led to new lifesaving discoveries and treatments for disease and chronic ill...