The OMG Hosts Healthcare Security Information Day Keynote Speaker to Address: 'Medical Records Disclosure: Dealing with Patient Consent, Privacy and Confidentiality'

Business Wire, Jan 17, 2001

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NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) and its Healthcare Domain Task Force (DTF) will host an Information Day on Tuesday, February 27, 2001 from 8:30 - 5:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, CA, USA. To be held during the OMG's Technical Committee (TC) Meeting, the Information Day is intended to provide a forum for discussing current security concerns facing the healthcare community, and to address these issues with real world solutions built on commercially-available products.

Keynote speaker, J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., FACMI, Senior Science Advisor for Information Technology, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will deliver a talk entitled, "Medical Records Disclosure: Dealing with Patient Consent, Privacy and Confidentiality." Find out what is being done to support the current trend that indicates patients' desire to protect their personal health information as records become increasingly available via computer databases. The session will spotlight the limitations of role-based access mechanisms, identifying the need to address situationally-dependent requirements. In addition, the discussion will identify areas of consideration from the perspective of healthcare organizations, to ensure that current and potentially future business drivers can be supported by IT investment.

Listed below are four other sessions that will be presented during the Healthcare Security Information Day.

--Administering Security Policies in your Enterprise By Sam Lumpkin, Security Architect, 2AB, Inc.

--Security Policy Interoperability: Working policies across organizations By Shel Sutton, Principal Information Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation

--How to Protect Your Medical Records in the e-World By Mike Davis, Senior Security Engineer, Principal for Cryptography and Chief Technologist, Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Center for Information Security Technology

--Security from a Legal Perspective Speaker to be announced

For details about sessions and registration information, refer to our website at http://www.omg.org/homepages/healthcare/infoday/ or contact Nicole Glazen by phone at 1-781-444-0404 x150 or by email at healthcare-interest@omg.org.

If you'd like to learn more about how you and/or your organization can get involved in developing industry standards for the healthcare industry, the OMG Healthcare DTF welcomes you to join them in their ongoing meetings held from February 26 -30, 2001. For information about the OMG Healthcare Domain Task Force initiatives, see their web site at www.omg.org/homepages/healthcare/.> About The OMG

With the support of its membership of software vendors, software developers and end users, the OMG's CORBA is "The Middleware That's Everywhere(TM)." Since 1989, the OMG has been "Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing(TM)" through its mission to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in Bahrain, Germany, India, and the UK, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, USA. The OMG is also a major sponsor of the Integrate 2001 trade show and conference, which will be held September 19-21, 2001 in New York City.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at 1-781-444 0404, by fax at 1-781-444 0320, or by email at info@omg.org. The OMG provides current information and services for Distributed Object Computing through The Information Brokerage(R) on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and at www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

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