What a mess.
There have been more than 50,000 reported breaches of patient medical records since September 2009, when Congress forced providers and other Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-covered organizations to report their security slip-ups to HHS.
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Why is privacy a big deal?
To explain why, the Federal Trade Commission, in its recent report on privacy, harkened back to 1890 and a seminal article in the Harvard Law Review.
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To be most effective, standards should be used by everyone; but must everyone pay for those standards?
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After the CMS and HHS stuttered through their announcements last month that the compliance deadline for ICD-10 would be delayed, many folks in healthcare information technology wondered, "Now what?"
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When is it appropriate for government to get involved in a task?
I'll give you one example. It's appropriate when something needs to be done collectively, as opposed to individually, and can be done most efficiently and expeditiously through a public, rather than a private, initiative.
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