2nd Edition
Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment
Chapter 1: What is Privacy?
Chapter 2: Considering Ethics in Privacy
Chapter 3: The Role of Security in Protecting Privacy
Chapter 4: The Legal Framework for Health Information Privacy
Chapter 5: A State-based Approach to Privacy for Interoperable Health Information
Exchange
Chapter 6: An Implementation Path to Meeting Patient’s Expectations and Rights
to Privacy and Consent
Chapter 7: The Need for Holistic Approach to Privacy
Chapter 8: Transparency
Chapter 9: Secondary Uses of Personal Health Information
Chapter 10: Technological Innovation and Privacy
Chapter 11: Privacy in the Real World: Trends and Considerations
Biography
Ms. Koontz is a senior principal for Privacy and Strategy and head of the Health Systems Engineering and Information Assurance Department at The MITRE Corporation. Drawing from her more than 30 years’ experience in information systems management and technology, she advises senior-level staff at federal agencies on strategic approaches to building privacy into their organizations, processes, and systems. She has provided privacy advice and support to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the Department of Homeland Security, and is a former member of the Department’s Data Protection and Integrity Advisory Committee (DPIAC). She is also the editor of the book, Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment, published by HIMSS in March 2013.
Before joining MITRE, Ms. Koontz served as the director, information management for the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In that role, she directed a broad portfolio of Congressionally requested studies, producing numerous reports on privacy, information access and dissemination, information collection, and records management. Ms. Koontz also testified numerous times before Congressional committees as an expert witness on these issues.
She holds a BA in Accounting from Michigan State University and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional. She is also an Executive Coach and a graduate of Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching Program.
