Opt in or opt out of NHIN? Committee can't decide
23rd Jun 2006, 21:32 GMT
Unable to reach a consensus on how to give individuals some control of their own health records on a future national health information network, a standing advisory committee is recommending that the Health and Human Services Department continue to study the issue and educate the public. The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) concluded that individuals should have the right to decide whether their electronic health records (EHR) should be accessible via the national network, and the committee said doctors should be required to treat patients who don’t agree to participate in the network. But the committee was split on whether the nation should adopt an opt-in or opt-out policy. Under the opt-in policy, patients must give their permission before their medical records can be made available to the network. In an opt-out policy, use of the network to transmit records is assumed and the patient must formally withhold the records from the network. The opt-out approach is easier to implement, and it is likely to result in more use of the network, the committee said in a report to HHS...
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