“The Health and Human Services Department’s new strategic plan for health IT doesn’t go far enough in standardizing the ways in which patient consent for release of personal health information would be managed, a group of health care CIOs said April 18.
HHS in March published its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2011 through 2015, which outlines activities for fostering widespread adoption of health IT and information sharing. The plan covers the period in which HHS is continuing distribution of $20 billion of economic stimulus funding to doctors and hospitals that buy and meaningfully use digital health record systems. The “meaningful use” requirements include exchange of patient health data to be aggregated for clinical, research, public health and budgetary purposes.”
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek, 18 April 2011
