HIPAA committee urges HHS to monitor effects of privacy rule
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, July 3, 2003
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Now is a good time to develop methodologies and collect baseline data for analyzing the effects of the privacy rule, according to a letter to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson from John R. Lumpkin, MD, MPH, chair of the agency's National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).
An ongoing program would help refine rulemaking, implementation, and enforcement strategies for the privacy rule, Lumpkin said in the June 25 letter. "Among other things, it would be valuable to study the effects of the privacy rule on such crucial matters as clinical care, public health reporting, research, and the research enterprise. It could also assess the degree to which the privacy rule has affected the level of privacy and confidentiality for protected health information, in both objective and subjective terms."
Go to http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/030625l3.htm to read the letter.
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