States can share data without creating threats to privacy, a...
States can share data without creating threats to privacy, a GAO report released Friday said (http://1.usa.gov/159G92T). One challenge to sharing more data is “confusion or misperceptions around what agencies are allowed to share, as well as a tendency to be…
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risk averse and overly cautious in their interpretation of federal privacy requirements,” the report said. Its authors interviewed stakeholders and took a close look at four states. The report recommended federal agencies clarify federal privacy requirements and harmonize them as well as “developing model data sharing agreements and informed consent language that comply with federal privacy requirements,” it said. The report cited the Department of Health and Human Services toolkit under review. That department should “ensure timely completion of its current work to clarify privacy requirements across programs, and OMB [should] consider additional ways to disseminate useful data sharing practices and tools that address privacy requirements,” the report recommended. The report contains “encouraging news” but also “underscores the need for better collaboration between state agencies as well as the federal government to share key information,” said Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, in a statement. “The federal government needs to lead this effort by clarifying for states the rules regarding the sharing and coordination of information."