“Many involved in the world of health IT know that federal regulation is part of the deal. Issues of health information privacy have been subject to an array of federal and state laws for decades. HIPAA, the Federal Privacy Act, laws governing Medicaid, Medicare, the Veterans Health Administration, funds used for the treatment of mental illness, sexually transmitted infections and on and on all have privacy provisions. There is a similar regulatory scheme for data security, again including HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and other laws.”
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Bruce Merlin Fried, iHealthBeat, 2 October 2009
