Privacy experts recommend broader protection for information
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, March 20, 2006
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Experts urged the federal government to couple plans for a national electronic health record (EHR) database with privacy protection that is broader than HIPAA's privacy provisions and affects all information handlers, reports United Press International (UPI).
"You have to establish privacy principles at the beginning," James Pyles, a Washington-based attorney told a government health subcommittee on March 16. "You can't retro-fit a system with privacy protections." Pyles and other privacy advocates noted that 17,000 privacy breach claims have been filed since HIPAA's inception, but the OCR has taken only one enforcement action, according to UPI.
The U.S. House health subcommittee is considering several proposals aimed at promoting nationally accessible EHRs. Click here to read the UPI article.
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