Thursday, May 5, 2016

Expert questions about privacy, safety protections of API policy

Application programming interfaces, a primary technology component hoped to give consumers access to healthcare data from electronic health records, also could carry some privacy and health or safety risks, particularly in the early stages of use of the technology.


A recent series of draft recommendations by a task force of a federal advisory committee is getting some criticism because it does not address liability protection for vendors and should offer more guidance to clients about their rights and responsibilities in data access.


However, the recommendations, by a Health IT Policy Committee task force, has got generally positive reviews, after the group completed a review of the potential privacy and security susceptibilities of the technology.

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