“The Health and Human Services Department is preparing to issue rulemaking later this month for privacy and meaningful use of electronic health records, but in the meantime, consumers might be risking their privacy by using an adjunct application known as personal health records, according to one watchdog group.
EHRs are patient medical records primarily used by doctors and hospitals. Under HHS’s plans to distribute $20 billion in economic stimulus law funding, those records will be more widely used, shared and aggregated to save money and improve health care quality. Rulemaking is expected by year’s end.”
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week, 7 December 2009
