This issue brief highlights federal and state legislative and programmatic activity affecting medical information and efforts to store and exchange such information electronically. Topics covered include privacy issues affecting medical records and prescription information, electronic health records (EHRs), health information exchanges (HIEs), telehealth/telemedicine, and electronic prescribing (e-prescribing). Reports of studies that could influence future policy, activities of major players in the private sector and state and federal initiatives are also highlighted in this issue brief.
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