By Howard Anderson

GovInfoSecurity.com

Feb. 3, 2012

Thanks to the HITECH Act, the federal government may spend as much as $30 billion to boost electronic health records and health information exchange. Will that prove to be a smart investment? Not if the public lacks trust that their digitized medical information will remain private.

So I was pleased to see a new report this week from The Bipartisan Policy Center hammer home the importance of gaining public trust (see: Report Calls for EHR Privacy Action). After all, if patients don't have confidence that their information will be adequately protected, they'll resist the movement from paper to electronic records.

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