The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to require health care providers to include “social and behavioral” data in Electronic Health Records (EHR) and to link patient’s records to public health departments, it was announced last week.
Health care experts say the proposal raises additional privacy concerns over Americans’ personal health information, on top of worries that the Obamacare “data hub” could lead to abuse by bureaucrats andidentify theft.
The CMS currently covers 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Hospital Insurance Program and is tasked with running Obamacare.
According to a solicitation posted by the Department of Health and Human Services on Sept. 4, the CMS is commissioning the National Academy of Sciences to study how best to add social and behavioral factors to electronic health record reporting.
The agency said adding social and behavioral data to patients’ online records will improve health care.
“Increasing EHR adoption has the potential to improve health and health care quality,” the contract’s statement of work (SOW) reads. “Parallel advances in analytic tools applied to such records are fueling new approaches to discovering determinants of population health.”
The project sets out to identify “core data standards for behavioral and social determinants of health to be included in EHRs.”
1 comment:
And this is when we need to learn as Americans, to LIE to the state (AKA Any Doctor after Oct first)
No, I will not provide them with any weapons to use against me, no info other than what they want to hear. No medical history, yes all my family died of natural causes in their sleep at 104 years old. NOTHING.. because it will be used against you at a later date by the death panels.
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