While the Department of Health and Human Services has taken positive actions to implement electronic health records, it still does not have a system for addressing issues of privacy protection, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
HHS implemented several measures to address these concerns following the release of a January 2007 GAO report on the lack of privacy safeguards in electronic health records. HHS fully implemented a GAO recommendation to “identif[y] milestones and the entity responsible for integrating the outcomes of its privacy-related initiatives,” but it fell short on implementing two other recommendations, according to a new report released last Wednesday.
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Related – GAO-08-1138 [pdf] September 17, 2008