State privacy rules reduce electronic medical sharing by 24 percent, warns Management Insights
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 10:35
in Mathematics & Economics
States that have passed privacy laws restricting the ability of hospitals to disclose patient information have seen the sharing of electronic medical records suffer by more than 24%, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).