HealthcareInfoSecurity.com Week in Review for Friday, Sept. 10, 2010

Howard Anderson (ismg_editor) • September 10, 2010 5 Minutes

This week's top news and views: Governing Health Data Exchange; Improving Patients' Access to Records; Patient Consent: A Closer Look. And don't miss our audio week-in-review podcast by Howard Anderson, managing editor.Here's what you'll find in our review of some of HealthcareInfoSecurity.com's most compelling content from the past week:

Federal regulators are taking initial steps toward creating a governance system to monitor whether all the players that eventually will exchange health information nationally are abiding by the same rules.

Momentum is building for giving patients easier access to their records by clicking a "blue button" on a secure website.

Detailed patient consent recommendations that a "tiger team" recently completed are just a starting point toward giving patients far more control over their healthcare information, the co-chair of the team acknowledges.
Please listen to this roundup and check out all of the week's news and views at HealthcareInfoSecurity.com.