U.S. GAO: Electronic Data-Sharing Puts Patients at Risk
Martin H. Bosworth writes on ConsumerAffairs.com:
In another blow to the federal government's crusade for a nationwide infrastructure for sharing of medical records, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said that efforts to coordinate privacy at the federal level don't pass muster.More here.
In a report, the GAO criticized the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for issuing contracts to develop initiatives for health information technology (IT) records-sharing without setting up adequate privacy guidelines.
(Props, Pogo Was Right.)
posted by Fergie @ 2/05/2007 03:36:00 PM
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