Minnesota Privacy and Security Project - Minnesota Dept. of Health

Minnesota Privacy and Security Project

Legal Work Group

The Legal Work Group will map privacy/security policies and practices related to the exchange of health information identified as barriers to relevant State and Federal law in order to identify the underlying rationale for the policy or practice.  The Legal Work Group will also work with the Solutions Work Group to propose solutions to eliminate barriers while maintain consumer/patient privacy protections.

Work Group Charge

  1. Map current organizational policies and practices identified as barriers to HIE to relevant State and Federal law;
  2. Evaluate whether the policies or practices categorized as barriers are being driven by: (a) existing State and Federal law; (b) varying interpretation/misinterpretation of existing law; or (c) deliberate decisions to incorporate policies and business needs that are more restrictive than current law;
  3. Analyze Federal and State law or regulations related to privacy, patient rights, and HIE for: (a) Completeness; (b) Consistency; (c) Redundancy; (d) Applicability to new technology environments; and (e) Balance between consumer benefits and protections;
  4. Collaborate with the Solutions Work Group and the Implementation Plan Work Group to ensure that laws are accurately and consistently interpreted throughout the process of formulating solutions and planning implementation of those solutions; and
  5. Create a Variations Assessment Report jointly with the Variations Work Group that documents the Work Groups’ evaluations and assessments.

Meeting Schedule

Work Group Members and Alternates

Ms. Laurie Beyer-Kropuenske
MN Department of Administration
Chair		 Ms. Sue Anderson
HealthPartners
Member
Mr. George Chresand
Fairview Health Services
Member		 Ms. Deb DeBruin
University of MN, Center for Bioethics
Member
Ms. Elizabeth Glode
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Member		 Ms. Rebecca Hasse
Allina Hospitals and Clinics
Member
Mr. Dave Honan
MN Department of Human Services
Member		 Mr. Tim Johnson
Gray Plant Mooty
Member
Mr. Brian McInerney
Neighborhood Health Care Network
Member		 Mr. Warren Ortland
MN AIDS Project
Member
Ms. Lois Dahl
Fairview Health Services
Alternate		 Ms. Katie Engler
MN Department of Administration
Alternate
Ms. Debra Topham
MN AIDS Project
Alternate		 Mr. Jim Golden
MN Department of Health
Project Director
Ms. Kristin Loncorich
MN Department of Health
Staff		 Mr. Dave Orren
MN Department of Health
Staff


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Meeting Information

October 11, 2006 2:00 - 4:00 pm

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Tuesday September 26, 2006  1:30 - 4:00 pm

  • Rescheduled for October 11, 2006, as joint meeting with the Variations Work Group

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Tuesday August 29, 2006  1:30 - 4:00 pm

  • Snelling Office Park, Big Fork Room
    Directions to SOP
  • Agenda (pdf 29Kb/1 pg)
  • Handouts
    • Liability Related Questions for Health Information Exchange (pdf 29Kb/2 pgs)
    • Responses to Consent Related Questions for Health Information Networks (pdf 36Kb/4 pgs)
    • "The Indiana Network for Patient Care: A Case Study of a Successful Healthcare Data Sharing Agreement" by Christopher S. Sears, Esq., Victoria M. Prescott, Esq., Clement J. McDonald, M.D.
      Copyright Ice Miller and Regenstrief Institute, Inc., 2005, (pdf 623Kb/46 pgs)
    • Brief Overview of Regenstrief's Health Information Exchange Activities, Victoria M. Prescott, Esq., Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (pdf 810Kb/23 pgs)
  • Meeting Summary

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Tuesday August 1, 2006
1:30 - 4:00 pm

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Tuesday July 11, 2006
1:30 - 4:00 pm

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Tuesday June 27, 2006
1:30 - 4:00 pm

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Tuesday June 13, 2006
2:00 - 4:00 pm

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