Wired for Health Care Quality Act examined

The Wired for Health Care Quality Act, passed late last week, grants government support to an interoperable national system of health records and supports funding for electronic medical records projects. Privacy groups are complaining that the legislation contains no provisions to protect the right of patients to determine who has access to their records. The Associated Press reports that 10,000 Americans now have online personal health records--probably a low guess.

- see this article from USA Today

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