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Health Affairs, 28, no. 2 (2009): 444-446 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.444 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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PERSPECTIVE

Protecting Patient Privacy Through Health Record Trusts

David B. Kendall

Patients should have the opportunity to exercise privacy rights through an account issued by a health record trust (or bank). Trusts would collect a complete digital copy of patients’ health records and enable patients to make informed decisions about their use. Federal legislation is needed to promote and oversee health record trusts and to reconcile existing privacy laws with stronger privacy protection available through health record trusts.

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