"A decision out of the Department of Health and Human Services, Monday, took a good first step toward achieving a better quality, less expensive health care system that carries the added benefit of better protections for individual patient health records. That move was the issuance of long overdue guidance for methods of de-identifying data gleaned from public health records, as required by federal law.
Access to the vast amounts of health data increasingly available as the nation continues to roll out its all digital health information network will provide the opportunity for the kind of rigorous data analysis that is critical if the U.S. is to realize the promise of a lower cost, better quality health care system. It is just as critical that the privacy of the individuals from which that data is drawn is protected in a way that invokes trust in the system."
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