Thursday 3 October 2013

ObamaCare reg on digital patient records raises security concerns

foxnews.com - A provision in ObamaCare requiring medical providers to switch from paper patient charts to electronic records by 2015 is intended to reduce costs and improve care. But privacy advocates fear the transition is too fast for security measures to keep pace."The thing I worry about is not that we are doing it, but that we're doing it without the right safeguards," said Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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