Subscribe to the Privacy Headline RSS feed | Subscribe to the Privacy Headline feed via EmailANALYSIS: Issues Raised by Use of Open Source Software for Electronic Health Records
March 22, 2010 in Privacy & Security Law Report · Leave a Comment
Despite the contentious nature of the recent debate on health care reform, most of the participants agree on one core fact: health care costs in the United States have been growing by an unsustainable rate and, if left unchecked, are likely to continue to escalate into the future.
Some have proposed that one way to rein in health care costs and improve the quality of patient care is to increase the rate at which patient records are being converted from paper to electronic form. Progress on that goal to date has been…
