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House Health IT Bill Builds Off of Older Legislation

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Despite bipartisan consensus that the U.S. health system could benefit from health IT legislation, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle seem to be stumped on the question of what kind of particulars a health IT bill should contain.

But a wide-ranging and progressive piece of health IT legislation in the House, which will be marked up in the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee tomorrow, could provide some of those necessary particulars.

Building off a number of other health IT bills that have stalled in Congress, the bill focuses on patient privacy loopholes in the HIPAA medical privacy rule, new entities that exchange health information and financial incentives that could help health providers adopt IT.

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