Patient privacy rights are at the heart of research by a University of Virginia professor.
The Federal Stimulus Package is pumping $20 billion into the healthcare system to move it completely to electronic records, but state privacy laws may slow that down in Virginia and across America.
Electronic Medical Records (or EMRs) have been around since the 1970’s, but today less than half of America’s hospitals have a basic EMR system.
Virginia is one of several states with strict privacy protection for hospital patients.
“There is this idea that there may be identity fraud, in particular medical identity fraud,” says University of Virginia Economics professor Amalia Miller. http://ping.fm/2iN1K