May 1, 2003
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In 1999, the Health Privacy Project of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy published a compilation of health privacy statutes in all 50 states and a "consensus document" of best principles for shaping health privacy policy.
June 1, 2000
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Health Systems Research sponsored a national conference entitled "Protecting the Confidentiality of Patient Information in a Rapidly Changing Health Care System: A National Conference" on January 14, 1998, in Washington.
June 30, 2000
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In 1998, the Alliance for Health Reform held two briefings on the topic of confidentiality of medical information.
January 1, 1999
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The Carter Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization working to promote peace and health worldwide, held three Rosalynn Carter Annual Symposium on Mental Health Policy from 1995 through 1997.
May 28, 2009
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The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists provided guidance to help public health practitioners understand how privacy laws at the federal, state and local level, affect the performance of essential public health activities.
March 25, 2013
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Developing and promoting a rapid-learning health system, in which health information in large databases is analyzed to improve health care - the work of Lynn Etheredge and the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University.
January 27, 2011
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The Health Insurance Reform Project advanced the development of a rapid learning health system - involving millions of health records in searchable national databases - to fill knowledge gaps about health care and develop better health care policies.
November 10, 2009
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Can the emerging technology of reality mining - which involves inferring human relationships and behavior by measuring physical and social activity - be used to improve public health and medicine?
December 2, 2008
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Connecting for Health works with more than 100 collaborators from government, health care, industry and consumer groups to establish policy guidelines and technical solutions to pave the way for nationwide electronic health information exchange.
October 1, 2003
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The Foundation for Health Care Quality facilitated a collaboration of information technology organizations in a program called the Multistate Initiative to Help Build a Health Information Infrastructure.