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- Title: Congress' New Infrastructural Model of Medical Privacy.
- Author : Notre Dame Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 432 KB
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INTRODUCTION Efforts have been underway for several years in the private sector and in the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conceptualize how a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) would work. (1) Until recently, Congress had not authorized large-scale implementation of any concrete pieces of such infrastructure. That changed with passage of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA) in September 2007. (2) FDAAA's section 905 (3) authorizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee development of a nationwide data network, the Sentinel System, (4) aimed at including data for 25 million patients by July 2010 and 100 million by July 2012. (5) Speculative concerns about health database privacy suddenly are enlivened with a riveting immediacy. This is here, now. One in three Americans is slated to be inducted into this data network within four years. (6)