Members of the American Medical Association at their annual meeting in Chicago have approved "guiding principles" to help physician practices handle data breaches of electronic medical records.
In breach incidents, the AMA guidelines ask physicians to:
* Ensure patients are properly informed of the breach;
* Follow ethically appropriate procedures for disclosure;
* Support responses to security breaches that place the interests of patients above those of physician, medical practice or institution; and
* To the extent possible, provide information to patients to enable them to diminish potential adverse consequences of the breach of personal health information.
--Joseph Goedert
JUN 17, 2009 12:10pm ET
AMA Adopts Data Breach Guidelines
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