Proposed electronic medical record privacy bill struck down in NH
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, March 19, 2008
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New Hampshire lawmakers struck down a bill proposing increased privacy restrictions on electronic medical records, reports the New Hampshire Business Review. The proposed bill would have made HIPAA applicable to software vendors, increased regulations on marketing companies, and given patients the overall say on any restrictions on their records. The bill was killed for a number of reasons, the most important being the expensive training that would have been needed for state employees on privacy law. Other lawmakers feared that information that was supposed to be sent to doctors would not make it due to stronger privacy laws.
Supporters of the bill argued that privacy training would not have been as costly as it was made to seem, and that patients deserve the right to control access to their own records.
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