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November 5, 2006 — 7:01pm ET
While there are still plenty of problems with interoperability, U.S. healthcare players have made progress in creating standards for health data sharing. However, few of these efforts have addressed privacy protections, according to an article in Baseline magazine. For example, HHS hasn't yet made rules to protect consumers from discrimination based on unauthorized disclosure of medical records. Article
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