AHIC co-chair resigns, criticizes privacy progress
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, March 5, 2007
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Paul Feldman, deputy director of the Washington, DC-based Health Privacy Project, has resigned as co-chair of the American Health Information Community's (AHIC) confidentiality, privacy, and security workgroup because he says the group has failed to make substantial progress.
Although the group has made sets of recommendations regarding privacy/security in a nationwide health information network (NHIN), "these recommendations and expected CPS next steps are a far cry from a comprehensive and timely approach that would give privacy policy equal and necessary footing with interoperability and systems development efforts," Feldman said in a letter.
Feldman's resignation comes on the heels of a Government Accountability Office report that criticized HHS for failing to address privacy principles en route to a NHIN.
Click here to read Feldman's letter.
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