Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Clips: Who is Responsible for Privacy in the Age of Health Information Technology?

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We all know that privacy means something different in the age of social networking than it did before. With the move now toward electronic health records and participatory healthcare our most personal data is now increasingly accessible by medical providers and associated businesses like insurance companies or laboratories. New laws have gone into effect to help protect privacy in this quickly changing framework of data accessibility. Read more about it on the Neenan blog, Who is Responsible for Privacy in the Age of Health Information Technology.