Text Messaging to Communicate With Public Health Audiences
How the Hipaa Security Rule Affects Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11022185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilary N Karasz (Hilary N. Karasz and Sharon Bogan are with Public Health—Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA. Amy Eiden is with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Seattle.), Amy Eiden (Hilary N. Karasz and Sharon Bogan are with Public Health—Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA. Amy Eiden is with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Seattle.), Sharon Bogan (Hilary N. Karasz and Sharon Bogan are with Public Health—Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA. Amy Eiden is with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Seattle.) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 617-622 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2012.300999 |
| PMID | 23409902 |
| PMCID | PMC3673236 |
| OpenAlex | W2101632871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Text messaging is a powerful communication tool for public health purposes, particularly because of the potential to customize messages to meet individuals’ needs. However, using text messaging to send personal health information requires analysis of laws addressing the protection of electronic health information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is written with flexibility to account for changing technologies. In practice, however, the rule leads to uncertainty about how to make text messaging policy decisions. Text messaging to send health information can be implemented in a public health setting through 2 possible approaches: restructuring text messages to remove personal health information and retaining limited personal health information in the message but conducting a risk analysis and satisfying other requirements to meet the HIPAA Security Rule
Business · Computer security · Confidentiality · Flexibility (engineering) · Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act · HRHIS · Internet privacy · Political science · Protected health information · Public health · Public relations · Restructuring · Software portability · Computer Science · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Nursing · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Health Policy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |