Consolidation in Health Field Will Create Issues For Patient Privacy and Electronic Health Records

FierceEMR reports that consolidation and new business relationships between healthcare providers will create issues regarding patient privacy and electronic health records, according to two healthcare attorneys interviewed by the blog.

Health law attorneys Michael Kline and Elizabeth Litten with Fox Rothschild in Princeton, N.J., told FierceEMR that the issues could include:

a. the expansion of health care entities "increases the risk of breach of the data as the octupus grows";

b. fights over who gets the patient, including if it means that the entity that controls the health care records is in control of the patient.