“The federal Health IT Policy Committee has endorsed a set of recommendations on when healthcare providers must obtain consent before exchanging patient heath records electronically with other clinicians, testing labs or health information exchange (HIE) networks.
The Committee will submit the recommendations, the product of several weeks’ work by a special privacy and security “tiger team,” to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. ONC must decide whether to set the recommendations in policy in time for the start of its health IT adoption campaign next year.”
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT, 23 August 2010
