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Privacy restrictions regarding lab data tackled by Panel

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Commercial labs want out from under certain data exchange restrictions imposed by federal and state privacy and medical and laboratory licensing laws, which they see as unfairly singling them out and impeding their large-scale data sharing arrangements with other healthcare organizations.Key questions before a federal advisory panel Tuesday were: whether the federal government could or should do anything—short of Congress rewriting the pertinent laws—to satisfy the labs, and whether current federal administrative rules could or should be changed to facilitate the flow of lab test results into and out of electronic health-record systems, health information exchanges and health insurance company databases.

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