"If enacted, HB 1587 would impede progress toward statewide adoption of electronic medical records....While debating HB 1587, opponents pointed to the harm this law would cause if quality of care is jeopardized in favor of privacy."

— The New Hampshire Hospital Assn, in a March 18 statement describing its opposition to a state bill that — had it not been defeated — would have allowed patients to have their information "suppressed from view" in the health information exchange, and receive an audit trail that illustrates access.

…sets of medical records for patients of Central Florida Regional Hospital were misdirected en route to CMS and wound up with a Utah teacher who was looking for scrap paper.