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Health Information Exchanges' Dirty Little Secret: The Infrastructure's Inability To Enforce Health Privacy Legislation, Gretchen E. Harper

Gretchen E Harper

Though the privacy of personal information may seem to be waning in American culture in the era of proliferating social media sites, the push for privacy in health information has remained. Unlike the restaurant check-in or the posted pet photo, data related to an individual’s health and morbidity is information our society continues to consider highly confidential. Along with the boom of electronic information exchanges and the ubiquity of personal data in various mediums, comes a great concern: privacy. Medical information is among the most sensitive types of personal information. The privacy of health information continues to be a vexing …