“The New York Times printed a letter I submitted in response to a Jan. 18 article by reporter Robert Pear about privacy of patient data in electronic form, in which consumer groups and some members of Congress rightly express concern that President Obama’s plan to stimulate the use of information technology in the healthcare field presents challenges to individual privacy unless there are strong privacy safeguards. Given a little more space here to elaborate than is provided in a newspaper letters section, let me expand on the issue and what I believe is being resolved by the certification process.”
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Mark Leavitt, EHR Decisions, 28 January 2009
