The Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Trade Commission will hold a day-long roundtable discussion, which will also be accessible via a live Web cast, to solicit industry input on privacy and security requirements for personal health records and related service providers.
The event will take place on Dec 3 at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the FTC.
HHS has enforcement jurisdiction for the health care breach notification rule mandated under the HITECH Act for HIPAA covered entities. The FTC has jurisdiction for breaches by non-HIPAA covered entities, particularly vendors of
The symposium will include four panel discussions of researchers, legal scholars and industry stakeholders.
"It will address the current state and evolving nature of PHRs and related technologies (including mobile technologies and social networking), consumer and industry expectations and attitudes toward privacy and security practices, and the pros and cons of different approaches to the requirements that should apply to non-covered entity PHRs and related technologies," according to an HHS notice.
David Blumenthal, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology; and Joy Pritts, HHS chief privacy officer, will make comments during the roundtable.
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