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House health IT bill gets support in hearing
www.govhealthit.com Witnesses at a House health subcommittee meeting today expressed broad support for the Energy and Commerce Committee’s draft health information technology bill, although questions arose about whether the privacy provisions should be strengthened.
The Bush administration took issue with several aspects of the proposal, including sections that would increase potential liability for health information exchanges and similar organizations if they misused protected health information. The bill would, in effect, extend privacy protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 to those organizations.
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