23 April 2007 – Not All Agree with Privacy Week’s Focus

Who can argue with a week devoted to “raising awareness among healthcare professionals, their employers and the public of the importance of protecting the privacy, confidentiality and security of personal health information?”

Deborah Peel, an Austin, Texas, psychiatrist and founder of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, that’s who. Peel is arguing about the focus on personal health records and other nuances of the privacy debate that the American Health Information Management Association put forth as part of its fourth annual Health Information Privacy and Security Week, which was held last week.

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Source: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/