“In a March 23 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Deborah Peel, MD, founder of the Patient Privacy Rights and leader of the bipartisan Coalition for Patient Privacy, argues that unless we put patients in control of their electronic healthcare records and put safeguards in place to make that data secure and private, the push to have a nationwide EHR system will fail. Peel is absolutely correct.
But it will take more than implementing privacy and security technological safeguards in the EHR systems. It will take more than giving patients control over who sees what information in their electronic records. Peel wrote of people not trusting the privacy of their paper-based health records 35 years ago. Herein lies the problem.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch, 24March 2010
