DRAFT: Policies & Practices to Look for From Organizations That Collect Your Personal Health Information: A Consumer Checklist

June 2007 To aid policy discussions on the secondary use of consumer data, on October 3, 2007, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) submitted several documents relating to secondary uses of consumer health data to the American Health Information Community, Office of the National Coordinator, and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. The documents included a taxonomy of the uses and users of secondary health data, which includes categories and classes of secondary uses of health data; a definition of data stewardship, and a consumer checklist regarding on-line health web sites. The documents are intended to provide . . .