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California RHIO shuts down over privacy concerns

HIPAA Weekly Advisor, March 19, 2007

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Santa Barbara, CA-based County Care Data Exchange's governing body folded on December 31, 2006, Government Health IT reports. Although the exchange had overcome significant technical hurdles, stakeholder concerns over privacy and liability scuttled the project.

"We got close but just couldn't overcome those remaining problems," Robert Reid, former acting chairman of the exchange, told Government Health IT. "There were real legal concerns from some of the other entities about the liability of having data fall into the wrong hands, despite all we had done in the way of security."

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