The WIRED for Health Care Act, seemingly dead earlier this month, has apparently been defibrillated back to life. Our protests about provisions for collection and dissemination of Medicare claims data in the last version are having some effect though. There is now talk of using clinical data, and of having only limited amounts of data releasable in any case. It would be good to get these concerns resolved, given the bill’s main goal of setting interoperable standards for health care is sorely needed.

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