id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ihlr-18808	Drabiak-Syed, Katherine	Granular Control of EHRs to Overcome Fragmented Disclosure Law: How Policy Choices for Granularity Will Affect Clinical Care, Impact Secondary Use of Health Information,and Alter Risks for Patients and Providers	2012	36	.pdf	application/pdf	11194	427	37	42 Vol. 10:1 GRANULAR CONTROL OF EHRs protected health information (PHI) and two subsets of sensitive health information, specifically mental health records and substance abuse and treatment records. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's HIT Policy Committee has asserted that a form of granular control over health data can protect the confidentiality of narrow categories of sensitive health information while fostering patient autonomy, promoting trust in medical providers, and building confidence in the growing use of HIT.55 Policymakers recognize that patients would like to exert some influence over who views this information and have discussed various systems of granular control over sensitive information.56 Proposed mechanisms for asserting granular 55 Advancing Privacy and Security in Health Information Exchange, HHS.GOV (Sept. 12, 2011), http://healthit.hhs.gov/portall server.pt/community/healthit hhs-gov privacy-and security/1147 (last visited Oct. 18, 2012)	cache/ihlr-18808.pdf	txt/ihlr-18808.txt