Privacy Advocates Sound Alarm About Electronic Prescribing

Sarah Rubinstein in Health Blog

Where there’s a push to make medical records electronic, there’s a worried patient-privacy advocate.

In an interview with USA Today, Tim Sparapani, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, raised a red flag about electronic prescribing: “Any time you put something in a digital format and standardize it, it becomes much more profitable and easy to move those records.”