HealthBlawg: PHRs, EHRs, privacy, functionality, and what the future might hold

"Back to the question of regulation: HIPAA seems to have left some gaping holes through which Microsoft's HealthVault and Google Health may pass. Those companies say that their privacy policies are more stringent than HIPAA and Google has said recently that serving ads on Google Health is not in the cards. The problem with relying on these statementsis simply that they are voluntary policies adopted by businesses that may change them over time. Other related parts of the health care information economy are similarly untouched by HIPAA."

HealthBlawg: PHRs, EHRs, privacy, functionality, and what the future might hold