Identifying Privacy Protection Gaps

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Report Pinpoints 7 Areas of Concern in Healthcare

By Howard Anderson, June 15, 2012.

Robust electronic health information exchange has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of care by making more complete information about patients more readily available to clinicians when they need it. But unless patient privacy is protected, efforts to ramp up information exchange - as well broaden the use of electronic health records - will be stalled because of the public's lack of trust.

Two consumer advocacy groups have issued a brief, well-written report that pinpoints seven gaps in existing privacy protections for healthcare information. I'm hopeful that federal regulatory authorities - as well as healthcare provider organizations and HIE organizers - will take a very close look at this report from Consumers Union and the Center for Democracy & Technology, which highlights critical issues in need of immediate attention."

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