President Obama and Electronic Health Records - 7 Reasons Why He is Right

It is well known that President Obama wants the federal government to invest in electronic health records so all medical records are digitized within five years. HThis will include plans to strengthen the security and privacy governance arrangements for health information currently in place, ensure that health information cannot be sold or passed on without patient consent, and increase the range of penalties for those who do not protect health data appropriately. There also needs to be serious reconsideration of introducing a national patient identifier for healthcare as part of this initiative.

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