title: Information storage for health-care providers: it's not as simple as it seems.
abstract: As medical practices migrate from paper to computers for record keeping, new issues surrounding the safe storage of such data are arising. These range from choosing an electronic storage format to ensuring that any electronic information stored today will be available and readable years into the future. Privacy and security issues also continue to be important, especially since the HIPAA regulations were instituted. With the rapid advances in technology, finding the right solution may be like trying to hit a moving target, yet some basic principles, outlined in this article, should make this difficult task easier.
authors.affiliation: Decision Systems Group, Thorn 310, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. dhanauer@dsg.harvard.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hanauer
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D016248:Computer Storage Devices / Q000592:standards*; D019992:Databases as Topic; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D020416:Outsourced Services; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D014481:United States