Abstract
Background: Considering the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health service delivery, the US Office for Civil Rights (OCR) updated the policies on health data processing, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Objectives: In this study, we investigated discourses on HIPAA in relation to COVID-19. Methods: Through a search of media sources in the Factiva database, relevant texts were identified. We applied a text mining approach to identify concepts and themes in these texts. Results: Our analysis revealed six central themes, namely, Health, HIPAA, Privacy, Security, Patients, and Need, as well as their associated concepts. Among these, Health was the most frequently discussed theme. It comprised concepts such as public, care, emergency, providers, telehealth, entity, use, discretion, OCR, Health and Human Services (HHS), enforcement, business, and services. Conclusion: Our discourse analysis of media outlets highlights the role of health data privacy law in the response to global public health emergencies and demonstrates how discourse analysis and computational methods can inform health data protection policymaking in the digital health era.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Navigating Healthcare Through Challenging Times - Proceedings of dHealth 2021 - Health Informatics Meets Digital Health |
Editors | Dieter Hayn, Gunter Schreier, Martin Baumgartner |
Place of Publication | Amsterdam Netherlands |
Publisher | IOS Press |
Pages | 70-77 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781643681818 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781643681801 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Event | Annual Conference on Health Informatics meets Digital Health 2021 - Virtual, Online, Austria Duration: 11 May 2021 → 12 May 2021 Conference number: 15th |
Publication series
Name | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics |
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Volume | 279 |
ISSN (Print) | 0926-9630 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1879-8365 |
Conference
Conference | Annual Conference on Health Informatics meets Digital Health 2021 |
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Abbreviated title | dHealth 2021 |
Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 11/05/21 → 12/05/21 |
Keywords
- Digital Technology
- Health Information Systems
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Privacy
- Public Health Informatics
- Telemedicine