[Sigmed-l] Senator Kennedy Massive Threat to Health Research

[Catherine Arnott Smith]

Anybody interested in doing research (ethical, respectful, necessary 
research) with health information should pay careful attention to this 
story ... I have been told that AMIA is coming out full force against 
this one ...

http://www.govhealthit.com/article103259 
<http://www.govhealthit.com/article103259>

I would really hope that somebody has the sense to realize we cannot 
have a national mandate for electronic health records AND an opt-out 
provision for electronic records at the same time.

-- 
Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 890-1334
Fax: (608) 263-4849

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The machine does not isolate us from the 
great problems of nature but plunges us 
more deeply into them.
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Form is never more than 
the extension of content.
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"Projective Verse", 1950.]