[Med-privacy] bill

[Jeff Williams]

Peter and all,

  I wonder if the DHS Privacy committee is working closely with
congress on this?  I also wonder is such a bill will be stronger than
some states have put in place recently or if it will be weaker in
any respects?

 My two cents again says that preemption by the individual on how
whom, and under what specific conditions is any or part of any
individuals medical information to be deciminited and determined.

  As we have recently seen a significant number of poorly protected
medical as well as financial information for individuals supposedly
protected/secured by corporate and federal government institutions
misplaced, stolen, or otherwise accessed improperly and thereby
exposing now millions of americans to Identity Theft far in the
future, it would seem reasonable that individuals need to take
back control of such data so as to be able to protect themselves
from such devastating effects of poor data management practices
and poor oversight by government entities and corporate institutions..

Peter Marshall wrote:

> *** Bill to Further Health IT Would Allow HIPAA to Supersede
>      State Laws ***
>
> Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT), chair of the House Ways and Means
> Subcommittee on Health, plans to introduce a healthcare IT bill that
> would allow federal HIPAA privacy and security regulations to supersede
> any state privacy and security laws. The federal government has
> announced plans to study how state privacy laws could hamper healthcare
> IT uptake.
>
> Dr. David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health IT at the Department
> of Health and Human Services (HHS), told members of the subcommittee
> that a drive to increase interoperability and the drive to use
> electronic health records would help get information where it is needed
> when it is needed. "The challenge here is how to adapt security/privacy
> issues with sharing information," Brailer said in response to a
> question posed by Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) about his opinion of HIPAA.
>
> Read more:
> http://www.hipaadvisory.com/news/index.cfm#0803hit
>
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Regards,

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