patient privacy

  • Read more: ACCESS Act Points the Way to a Post-HIPAA World

    ACCESS Act Points the Way to a Post-HIPAA World

    By Adrian Gropper The October 22 announcement starts with: “U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) will introduce the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act, bipartisan legislation that will encourage market-based competition to dominant social media platforms by requiring the largest companies to make user…

    Diverse crowd of adults on a bus, all using smartphones
  • Read more: ONC’s Proposed Rule is a Breakthrough in Patient Empowerment

    ONC’s Proposed Rule is a Breakthrough in Patient Empowerment

    Regardless of how one defines a longitudinal health record, we might agree that it should follow the patient by being accessible to the physicians and other caregivers designated by the patient “without special effort.”