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FTC to Host Workshop on Innovations in Health Care Delivery

Posted on March 10, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

From the FTC:

The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on April 24, 2008, to examine recent trends related to health care delivery. This workshop will bring together representatives of physician and healthcare associations, industry, privacy groups, academia, federal and state government, and other experts.

The workshop participants will engage in several panel discussions on competition and consumer protection issues regarding particular health care delivery innovations. These issues include:

[…]

Health information technology – Electronic health records have the potential to reduce administrative costs and medical errors due to incomplete or faulty paper records. The Department of Health and Human Services has developed an extensive framework to facilitate the adoption of electronic health records by the medical community, including the certification of particular products for creating and maintaining such records. Private companies, such as popular online consumer sites, have also started offering personal electronic health record services. Electronic access to medical expertise – such as through transfer of diagnostic imaging, real time doctor/patient and doctor/doctor consultation, and remote monitoring – also has the potential to improve the distribution of medical services. One of the primary consumer protection issues for health information technology is patient privacy and the application of current federal and state privacy protections to electronic health records. Concerns about interoperability of electronic record systems and the impact of state laws on interstate electronic consultation and monitoring also implicate competition concerns.

The workshop, which will be free and open to the public, will be held from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. at the FTC’s satellite building conference center, 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. A government-issued photo ID is required for entry. Pre-registration for this workshop is not required, but is encouraged. To pre-register, please email your name and affiliation to: hcinnovations@ftc.gov.

Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Requests for such accommodations should be submitted via e-mail to cmcglothlin@ftc.gov or by calling Carrie McGlothlin at 202-326-3388. Such requests should include a detailed description of the accommodations needed and a way to contact you if we need more information. Please provide advance notice.

Anyone may submit comments until May 26, 2008. Interested parties may file comments electronically or in paper form. For more information about the workshop, including instructions on how to file comments, please visit http://www.ftc.gov/bc/healthcare/hcd/index.shtm.

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, click: http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.shtm or call 1-877-382-4357. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,600 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. For free information on a variety of consumer topics, click http://ftc.gov/bcp/consumer.shtm.


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