FSIS delays industry access to Public Health Information system
Al Almanza, administrator of USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, announced last week that FSIS will delay the industry's access to the Public Health Information system as a result of the agency's budget situation, adding that the move ``would not affect agency implementation of PHIS.''
A new whitepaper recently released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the US Department of Health and Human Services, authored by faculty and researchers at The George Washington University's Department of Health Policy and researchers at AcademyHealth, explores key components of data segmentation, circumstances for its use, associated benefits and challenges, various applied approaches, and the current legal environment surrounding data segmentation in the area of health information exchange.