01/23/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"As you know, our electronic health record systems often have trouble matching a particular scan or a test result to the right patient, and those mismatches endanger patients."
"Basically, it's a way to tie a patient to a system, to say the system is not going to share data anywhere else."
"Health data ultimately belongs to the patient, not to EHR vendors, and an EHR vendor should not be permitted to 'hoard' patient data in order to gain a business advantage."
"If our technical experts are telling us that plugging more renewable energy into the system can help protect the grid in the face of these extreme weather threats, then we should make it a priority."