Health Populi August 19, 2019
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI).

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented.

That’s not a typo in the title: Ciitizen (spelled with two “i’s”) launched a The Patient Record Scorecard on 14th August. The Scorecard was developed to gauge the progress (and lack thereof) of patient information access afforded by peoples’ health care providers.

What did Ciitizen learn from this process? “The majority of medical record providers are not compliant with the HIPAA Right of Access,” Deven McGraw is quoted on...

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Govt Agencies, HIPAA, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Technology
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