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State Health Data Laws Are a Patient Safety Problem w/ Leigh Burchell, Altera Digital Health
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A patient's right to control their own health data now depends almost entirely on which state they live in or happen to seek care in. The patchwork is growing, and the clinical and compliance consequences are catching up fast.
Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs at Altera Digital Health and Chair of the Electronic Health Record Association, joins host David E. Williams to discuss why states moving in opposite directions on sensitive health data are creating real patient safety risks, and what it costs EHR vendors in hundreds to thousands of engineering…
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