Parents want to see health files
Andrew Tillett, The West Australian
“A family group has attacked plans to allow children as young as 14 to stop their parents from accessing their personal electronic health records.
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Electronic Health Record To Be Active By 2012
Dinesh Chandra Gaur, TopNews
“There are a lot of benefits to introduce an electronic health records system, but most importantly it would make the management of health records of 21st century level.
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Locking up the PCEHR
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The government is clearly intent on discouraging health workers from idly perusing patient files within the PCEHR, with Health Minister Nicola Roxon outlining draft laws which would impose fines of $13,200 for individuals and $66,000 for organisations which unnecessarily accessed the record of any patient.
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Consultation on use of records
e-Health Insider
“The Department of Health is to launch a series of pilots to examine how patients can opt out of having their records viewed for research purposes after its consultation found a wide gap between the views of researchers and the public.
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Progress still slow on electronic health record adoption
Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“Adopting standards for electronic health records (EHRs) is being slowed by the issues of deciding who controls the patient health data and how that control should be exercised, panelists at an industry forum said today.
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Blogpost: Observations 29 September 2009: Kennedy takes the wrong turn on EHR
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“Is withholding information for privacy’s sake the right approach for a problem that should have been solved in the very first stage of designing an EHR? Essential to an EHR is that it holds ALL medical and health related information about a person.
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GP2GP can reveal hidden data
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GPs have been warned that patient data hidden in electronic records is likely to be revealed when records are transferred via GP2GP or on paper.
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EPD-pas voor meer controle over eigen dossier
ICTZorg
“Om patiënten meer controle te geven over hun eigen dossier moet een EPD-pas voor alle burgers ingevoerd worden, die tevens dient ter autorisatie van de behandelend arts.
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Privacy of patient data: Additional details on The New York Times letter
Mark Leavitt, EHR Decisions
“The New York Times printed a letter I submitted in response to a Jan. 18 article by reporter Robert Pear about privacy of patient data in electronic form, in which consumer groups and some members of Congress rightly express concern that President Obama’s plan to stimulate the use of information technology in the healthcare field presents challenges to individual privacy unless there are strong privacy safeguards.
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Privacy Issue Complicates Push to Link Medical Data
Robert Pear, The New York Times
“President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to link up doctors and hospitals with new information technology, as part of an ambitious job-creation program, is imperiled by a bitter, seemingly intractable dispute over how to protect the privacy of electronic medical records.
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Genetics: Now that we finally have some protection…
“The Senate unanimously passed their version of a Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act this week while the House had one hold-out when they voted to pass this legislation yesterday. President Bush says he’ll sign the legislation into law once it arrives on his desk. What I can’t quite figure out though is with such near unanimous approval, why did it take the legislature 13 years to finally pass this law and secondly, now that they have passed it, why the 18 month wait for it to actually become law? Maybe it has something to do with reconciliation with the numerous states who are way ahead of the Feds on this one, with some 32 states already having legislation in place to protect employees.”
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John Moore, Chilmark Research, 2 May 2008
