Report: US should learn from other countries' health networks
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, March 19, 2007
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The United States can learn from other countries' experiences in developing national health information infrastructure (NHII) that ensure privacy and confidentiality, according to a new report prepared for HHS by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The Implementation of E-consent Mechanisms in Three Countries: Canada, England, and the Netherlands points to the data-masking mechanisms that these three countries use as a way to ensure compliance with the patchwork privacy and security laws in the United States. Allowing patients to create authorization profiles that specify who they authorize to view their information is also promising, according to the paper.
A major challenge to any NHII is that the prevalence of copies of information/data means that it will be difficult to ensure that such authorization profiles can be practical.
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