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From: [log in to unmask] on Fri, Sep 11, 1998 20:54
Subject: Access AMIA - Issue 10
To: AMIA Members

                             ACCESS AMIA

                       On-line Communique of the
               American Medical Informatics Association

                       Issue 10, September 10, 1998

* AMIA Annual Symposium Program Preview Mailed

* AMIA Site Visit Brochure Mailed; Still Time for Columbia; Yale 
and Harvard in October 

* Proposed Rule for Security and Electronic Signature Standards for
Individual Health Information Published; Comments Requested by 
October 13 

* Michigan Study Looks at E-Mail in Patient/Physician Interactions 

* HOST Project with NIAP, ARCA Systems to Develop Criteria for 
Evaluating Security

* WIPO Copyright Legislation


AMIA ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM PREVIEW MAILED.
AMIA members should be receiving this week their copy of the AMIA 
1998 Annual Symposium Advance Registration and Program Preview.  
Members will later this month receive a full72-page preliminary 
program by mail.  The most recent and fullest detail available on the 
program will always be available on the AMIA Web site Annual 
Symposium page at www.amia.org/f98main.htm.
For members who have not yet registered for the conference, you may 
register using the form in the Advance Registration and Program 
Preview, the Preliminary Program, or online through AMIA's Web site.


AMIA SITE VISIT BROCHURE MAILED; STILL TIME FOR COLUMBIA;
YALE AND BOSTON IN OCTOBER.  AMIA members are receiving a copy of 
the 1998-99 AMIA Site Visit brochure.  The Columbia site visit will 
take place on Wednesday, September 16, and there is still time to 
register last-minute (call the AMIA office or fax the registration 
form to the AMIA office).  While the heaviest concentration of site 
visits is between February and May, there are some important ones 
this fall as well.  The Yale University School of Medicine site visit 
is October 14, 1998, and the five-site, two-day Boston visit is 
October 15-16.


PROPOSED RULE FOR SECURITY AND ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE
STANDARDS FOR INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INFORMATION PUBLISHED; 
COMMENTS REQUESTED BY OCTOBER 13.
The Department of Health and Human Services has published a proposed 
rule for the security of individual health information and electronic 
signature use by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health 
care providers.  It was published in the Federal Register, August 12, 
1998 (volume 63, number 155), pages 43241-43280.  The proposed rule 
is reportedly available at 
http://wais.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1998_register&do 
cid=98 though we have not been able to get the server at that address 
to respond (keep trying - it may!).  Print copies may be ordered for 
$8 from New Orders, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, 
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.  The public comment deadline is October 
13.  Comments may be sent by e-mail to [log in to unmask]


 MICHIGAN STUDY LOOKS AT E-MAIL IN PATIENT/PHYSICIAN INTERACTIONS.
 A three-year randomized control trial on "The Effect of Enhanced
 Patient E-mail Access on Patient-Physician Communication and
 Satisfaction" will be carried out at the University of Michigan under
 the direction of David Stern, MD, PhD.  The study will seek to answer
 the following questions: (1) what are the most compelling transaction
 types for healthcare e-mail users? (2) how does transactional e-mail
 effect the volume of e-mail communication, telephone calls, visits,
 and overall efficiency of the organization? and (3) how does
 transactional e-mail effect the satisfaction of patients and
 physicians? The study will be funded by the Intel Corporation.  For
 further information, please contact the Consortium for Health
 Outcomes, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Studies (CHOICES) at
 734-647-8094 or by email to [log in to unmask]


 HOST PROJECT WITH NIAP, ARCA SYSTEMS TO DEVELOP CRITERIA FOR
 EVALUATING SECURITY.  The HOST Consortium is working with the
 National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) and ARCA Systems to
 develop a set of common criteria by which healthcare information
 systems security may be evaluated, and comments are being sought. 
 The development of the common criteria is intended to allow the
 construction of Protection Profiles.  The project has the following
 four goals: (1) to define the various environments for which
 Protection Profiles must be developed; (2) to define the assets to
 protect, as defined by various policies, regulations, or best
 practices; (3) to define the threat and the subsequent security
 objectives; and (4) to develop healthcare Protection Profiles that
 reflect the above security requirements, objectives, and
 environments.  The announcement of this project containing further
 information can be found at http://www.hostnet.org/CCM.html


 WIPO COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION.  Both the House and Senate have adopted
 legislation to implement the World Intellectual Policy Organization
 (WIPO) Copyright and Performers and Phonograms Treaties.  There are
 significant differences between the two, though (H.R. 2281 and S.
 2037, respectively), and the two versions are to be negotiated in
 conference.  To explore the issues and progress of this important
 legislation, see http://www.dfc.org, the Web site of the Digital
 Futures Coalition, a 42-member alliance of educational, library, and
 scientific societies.


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