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Health Department Encourages Use of Patient Information to Improve Care

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced privacy
principles and a toolkit to guide efforts to harness the potential of
new technology and more effective data analysis, while protecting
privacy. Secretary Michael Leavitt stated that consumers should not be
forced to accept privacy risks. Secretary Leavitt articulated several
principles like individual access; correction; openness and
transparency; individual choice; collection, use, and disclosure
limitation; data integrity; safeguards and accountability. Also
announced were several tools intended to help consumers and health
information exchanges improve toward privacy protection and consumer
access to their information.


U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, News Release,
December 15, 2008:
       http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2008pres/12/20081215a.html

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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced privacy

principles and a toolkit to guide efforts to harness the potential of

new technology and more effective data analysis, while protecting

privacy. Secretary Michael Leavitt stated that consumers should not be

forced to accept privacy risks. Secretary Leavitt articulated several

principles like individual access; correction; openness and

transparency; individual choice; collection, use, and disclosure

limitation; data integrity; safeguards and accountability. Also

announced were several tools intended to help consumers and health

information exchanges improve toward privacy protection and consumer

access to their information.



U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, News Release,

December 15, 2008:

      http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2008pres/12/20081215a.html


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