“Members of a federally sponsored collaborative will recommend creation of a rules engine this month to facilitate the exchange of patients’ electronic health information across state lines.
The engine, which is comprised of a database and associated software, would determine what privacy and consent laws apply to a given transfer of information and report those findings, thereby simplifying the process of obeying disparate state laws and rules governing health information.”
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Nancy Ferris, Government Health IT, 5 March 2009
