Pitfalls with digital health records
The more I hear about digital national health records, the more I worry about them with regards to security. Various interpretations of the new legislation in the 2009 Stimulus bill could mean anything from implementing something like SAFEHealth, a decentralized system, to something like Google Health, which would centralize medical records. I expect that a decentralized system will not be what the government will choose. Proper usage of a decentralized system would be fine, but removes a lot of the [...]
