CSC 9010-035 Summer 2014 eHealth Security & Privacy (Professors Elliot Sloane & Joseph Welsh)

See the link at bottom of page for all CAHIMS Preparation material included in this schedule.

  1. (Jun 3) Topic: Introduction and Overview: Security and Privacy in eHealth, incl HIPAA & HITECH (Sloane & Welsh)

    1. Blogs by Boone, Moehrke, and Halamka

    2. Students initiate individual media scanning for Health IT “breaches,” logs w/comments due to professors on June 24 and July 22.

  2. (Jun 10) Topic: Essentials of Laws, Regulations, and Policies: US and European Privacy Policies (Welsh & Sloane)

    1. US OCR role, penalties, etc

    2. EU zero-tolerance for privacy breaches

  3. (Jun 17) Topic: Security and Privacy Technologies and Solutions (Sloane)

    1. NIST Technical Standards that are required by HIPAA

    2. IHE Standard: ATNA

    3. HITSP Standards for Security, Anonomization, Pseudonomization

    4. Begin first part of CAHIMS Privacy and Security Materials Section 5

  4. (Jun 24) Topic: Introduction and Overview of three different EMR systems in wide use (Welsh)

    1. Begin second part of CAHIMS Privacy and Security Materials Section 5

    2. First set of student logs on Health IT breaches with student commentary due to professors

  5. (Jul 1) Topic: International Privacy and Security, WHO policies (Welsh & Sloane)

    1. CAHIMS Prep Section 5 Quiz results due)

    2. Term project discussion, brainstorming

  6. (July 8) Topic: Social engineering, mobility, patient safety, wireless in healthcare (Sloane)

    1. Student assessment of comparative security issues, risks, mitigations for any 2 of the 3 EMRs

    2. Student’s selection of term project due to professors by 9 PM; approval to be completed by July 10

  7. (July 15) Topic: Secondary uses of data including clinical research, population health, registries (Welsh)

    1. HITSP CDISC Clinical Research standard

    2. S&I Framework emerging standards for US Meaningful Use Stage 2

    3. Initial student presentations on term projects (5 minutes each)

  8. (July 22) Final student term project presentations and reports turned in – 15 minutes each (Sloane & Welsh)

    1. Second set of student logs of Health IT breaches with student commentary due to professors



(July 28) Absolute LAST day for completed term project delivery to instructors.


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