The Privacy and Security Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee is preparing a set of recommendations about how the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT should approach “big data” issues for both HIPAA-covered entities as well as for the marketplace outside the HIPAA sphere.
At a June 8 meeting, Deven McGraw, a partner in the healthcare practice of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and the workgroup’s chair, led a discussion of draft recommendations to identify gaps in law and regulation around issues including data de-i