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The Policy Exchange is an online discussion list that includes leading U.S. privacy and patient advocates, all seeking to insure a trustworthy and viable Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) through issue spotting, knowledge sharing and brainstorming.
AdvanceHIT began the Policy Exchange because local NHINs are developing around the country quickly and the recently released list of meaningful uses for the NHIN from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid includes no privacy incentives [1]. Local NHINs will dictate the terms for widespread collection and sharing of patient information. Many of these efforts are guided by consensus committees that have one or two advocates, but these advocates are often isolated and are not necessarily experts on particulars of health information privacy. The most immediate means of connecting advocates to each other and to other stakeholders and sharing knowledge among them is an online discussion list accessible to members only (i.e., the Policy Exchange).
Interested persons should send an email request to inquiry@advancehit.org.
Dated: August 11, 2010.
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