Abstract
Over the past decade, various regulations have been proposed and promulgated to support the auditing of accesses to Electronic Medical Record (EMRs). Current tools to support this process can improve their use of statistical and machine learning techniques and auditor interfaces. We sketch requirements and design for an Extensible Medical Open Audit Toolkit (EMOAT) to enable progress in these areas. A key objective is to provide interfaces that support three types of stakeholders: (1) expert analysts, (2) privacy and security officers, and (3) patients. Our system design provides for an application programming interface that enables officers and patients to access both simple and complex analytic systems. We illustrate how EMOAT has been adapted to support certain audit functionalities with data from the EMR systems of several large hospital systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| State | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 2013 USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies, HealthTech 2013 - Washington, United States Duration: Aug 12 2013 → … |
Conference
| Conference | 2013 USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies, HealthTech 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Washington |
| Period | 8/12/13 → … |
Funding
This research was supported by grants CCF-0424422 and CNS-0964063 from the NSF, R01-LM010207 from the NIH, and HHS-90TR0003/01 from the ONC but the views in the paper are those of the authors only
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Information Systems
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Health Informatics
- Health Policy
