Policy Discussions
hc's problem list, medical records, policy issues
“HIPAA is SO 1996″
That’s a direct quote from Paul Tang, of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, at last week’s meeting of the Health IT Policy committee, of which he is vice chair. Dr. Tang was riffing on an e-Patient Dave quote, which I read during my testimony: I want innovation at a rate that resembles the rate of [...]
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“Give us our data”:
my talk at the NeHC board meeting
Last Tuesday, June 2, I was on a consumer panel at a board meeting of the National eHealth Collaborative. This is a heady group to be addressing; as this press release says, nine of these people are on the advisory committees that are working directly with David Blumenthal, Obama’s National Coordinator for Health IT, to [...]
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