[Med-privacy] EMRs

[peter marshall]

HEALTH RECORD HASTE SPARKS PRIVACY FEARS
[SOURCE: FederalComputerWeek, AUTHOR: Alice Lipowicz]

The economic stimulus law is creating privacy risks as it forces fast  
development of electronic health records, according to at least one  
privacy advocate. The Privacy and Security Workgroup of the Health and  
Human Services Department's Health Information Technology Standards  
Committee presented its recommendations to the committee on July 21.  
It included a framework of 37 standards to be implemented in phases in  
2011, 2013 and 2015. But Dr Deborah Peel, founder of the Coalition for  
Patient Privacy, said the proposals postpone several major privacy  
protections until 2015 even though the bulk of the health IT  
implementations will begin in 2011.

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