Inside Health Policy included HIA’s comments to the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Privacy Working Group in a recent article.
The Health Innovation Alliance (HIA) also wants lawmakers to build off HIPAA.
“We urge you to use the existing de-identification standards in HIPAA (for HIPAA-covered health data) that are well understood and work to protect privacy,” the group wrote.
But HIA, the College for Health Information Management Executives and Altera Digital Health all caution lawmakers that data privacy legislation expanding upon HIPAA shouldn’t pose duplicative or burdensome requirements on entities already covered by HIPAA.