In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, experts share perspectives on the questions and challenges surrounding healthcare IT and privacy. John Christiansen, a Seattle-based healthcare lawyer focusing on IT, privacy and security issues, writes, “It’s not always easy to strike the right balance between privacy and other values” and explores two healthcare situations—“one at the operational level involving emergency access to information and the other at the policy level involving the shutdown of the HIPAA individual identifier by privacy advocates.” Experts Rick Kam, CIPP/US, and Doug Pollack, CIPP/US, discuss the balance between electronic health records and patient privacy.
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