[Med-privacy] national data system initiative

[pmarshall]

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003
To: declan@well.com
From: Twila Brase CCHC <twila@cchc-mn.org>
Subject: ... national data system initiative

....  while everyone in health care policy is immersed in the Medicare
debate, another important public debate should be taking place: the
building of a national health care data system.

We put together a comparison of the national health data system initiatives
in the two patient safety bills that were debated today in the U.S. Senate
HELP committee (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions).

The much longer House bill, that passed the House overwhelmingly in March
includes $25 million in information technology grants and the creation of a
Medical Information Technology Advisory Board to build health data system
interoperability across the country. You can find the comparison at:
http://www.cchconline.org/pr/pr072303.php

Twila Brase RN
President, CCHC
651-646-8935

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