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Your medical info is caught in a battle between privacy and access


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Your medical info is caught in a battle between privacy and access

There's a tug of war playing out between the government and medical record companies over your doctor's notes, and the winner could emerge any day.

The head of the largest company that manages doctor records has just officially spoken out against a landmark rule years in the making meant to modernize our healthcare system and open up medical data.

Over the past three years, the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been working to create and implement new rules that would allegedly make it easier for patients, as well as health and technology companies, to access patient records.  Read more...

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