[Med-privacy] EMRs

[Peter Marshall]

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Preparing for electronic medical records in New York -- Newsday.com

The doctor's office is involved in a federally funded effort to figure 
out how to create a system in which every American has an electronic 
medical record. The Bush administration wants to make the conversion by 
2014, aiming to reduce medical errors and save lives. But first 
researchers in the Hudson Valley and 11 other areas around the country 
are trying to answer some basic questions: How will the system work? 
How will a lab in Wichita communicate with a doctor in Washington? How 
do you encourage doctors to sign on?

"We do believe this is going to happen," said Neil de Crescenzo, a vice 
president with IBM Business Consulting Services, which is involved the 
project. "It's just going to happen in smaller chunks, which hopefully 
will become larger and larger chunks."

[...]

 From the patient's point of view, there are issues of security (keeping 
your psychiatric records out of the hands of hackers) and privacy 
(keeping your psychiatric records from your podiatrist). Dr. Deborah 
Peel of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, for instance, claims 
there are far too few privacy safeguards being considered by government 
officials in general.

Given the cost and controversies, the government is taking a 
step-by-step approach.

In November, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded $18.6 
million in contracts to four groups to create electronic health 
information network prototypes. The IBM-led consortium is working in 
the Hudson Valley and two areas in North Carolina. The other consortia 
creating pilot systems elsewhere are led by Accenture, Computer 
Sciences Corp., and Northrup Grumman.

  
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doctor's office is involved in a federally funded effort to figure out
how to create a system in which every American has an electronic
medical record. The Bush administration wants to make the conversion
by 2014, aiming to reduce medical errors and save lives. But first
researchers in the Hudson Valley and 11 other areas around the country
are trying to answer some basic questions: How will the system work?
How will a lab in Wichita communicate with a doctor in Washington? How
do you encourage doctors to sign on? </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>


</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>"We do believe this is going to
happen," said Neil de Crescenzo, a vice president with IBM Business
Consulting Services, which is involved the project. "It's just going
to happen in smaller chunks, which hopefully will become larger and
larger chunks."</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>


</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>[...]</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>


</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>From the patient's point of view, there
are issues of security (keeping your psychiatric records out of the
hands of hackers) and privacy (keeping your psychiatric records from
your podiatrist). Dr. Deborah Peel of the Patient Privacy Rights
Foundation, for instance, claims there are far too few privacy
safeguards being considered by government officials in general. </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>


</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Given the cost and controversies, the
government is taking a step-by-step approach. </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>


</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>In November, the Department of Health
and Human Services awarded $18.6 million in contracts to four groups
to create electronic health information network prototypes. The
IBM-led consortium is working in the Hudson Valley and two areas in
North Carolina. The other consortia creating pilot systems elsewhere
are led by Accenture, Computer Sciences Corp., and Northrup Grumman.</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>


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