Both federal and state healthcare privacy laws conflict and confuse
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, August 27, 2007
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The State Alliance for e-Health, a subset of the National Governors Association, is pushing state governments to reduce the variability of healthcare privacy requirements, and calls for the federal government to solve problems and ease confusion about the regulatory requirements for health information privacy, says FCW.com. The alliance noted that HIPAA, along with other federal laws regulating health information privacy for schools and other facilities, may inhibit work towards health information exchanges, and that resolving the differences among states' requirements is necessary for the successful implementation of health information technology.
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