ADA Standards—Architecture and Security

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Revised ADA Technical Report No. 1018, Technical Security Mechanisms and Application to Dentistry

• This report discusses requirements for practices to ensure transmission security to protect the integrity of data sent over the Internet and to authenticate the data received.

ADA Technical Report No. 1021, Recommendations for Data Integrity, Redundancy, Storage and Accessibility

• This report reviews options presently available to prevent data loss and corruption, maintain data integrity and restore and maintain access to data (backup); noting their effects on a dental facility’s standard operating procedures. It also discusses appropriate contingency plans in emergency situations for recovery and authentication (verification) of the data as well as accessing the information.

ADA Technical Report No. 1096, Electronic Protected Health Information HIPAA Security Risk Analysis and Plan

• The scope is to review the fundamental concepts and terminology of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Security Rule; Highlight the steps needed to start a Patient Data Security Risk Analysis; Outline the steps required in a risk management plan.

ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1000, Standard Clinical Data Architecture

• Patient health information is a critical element in the healthcare decision-making process. Accurate information is essential for timely, appropriate and quality health services. This standard provides a logical data model for persistent patient data in healthcare information systems that can be engineered into a database supporting various clinical functions such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, imaging and referrals.

ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1027, Implementation Guide for the Electronic Health Record

• The purpose of this document is to provide implementation guidance to system planners, solution and data architects, and database developers. This document describes engineering approaches and presents examples of how this specification may be used at the data layer of system designs and in data subsystems for new development, legacy system migration, and data system retrofit.

ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1039, Standard Clinical Conceptual Data Model

• This standard provides descriptions of activities and data structures specific to clinical healthcare and population health services. It presents a high level structured analysis of the fundamental activities shared throughout the delivery of healthcare services and the principal types of data needed to support these activities.

ADA Technical Report No. 1091, Cloud Computing and Data Storage: Implications and Recommendations for Dental Practice

• The purpose of this document is to describe cloud computing and data storage, its use in dental practice, its benefits and risks, and recommendations for use by dental practitioners.

ADA Standard No. 1108 Dentistry – Implementation Guidance for the ADA-HL7 Dental Health Functional Profile

• The scope of this standard is to identify the minimum performance functionality required of an electronic dental record system and to encourage the implementation of the ADA/HL7® DHFP effectively in an interoperable and coordinated care environment.

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