HIA Urges E&C To Carve Health Data Out Of Privacy Bill

The Health Innovation Alliance is pressing the House Energy & Commerce Committee to carve out health care laws and regulations from any broader privacy legislation it takes up, making the pitch a day before the committee was set to hold a hearing Wednesday (March 1) on a need for a national privacy standard. The group has floated legislative text and suggests a commission be set up to weigh a health care-centric privacy approach -- an idea that has been bandied...