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Health care data-sharing rules touch off intense lobbying fight - POLITICO

But many in the industry say they have patients’ best interests at heart in asking for increased privacy protections as part of the rule. “The primary beneficiaries of this rule are venture capitalists and others taking advantage of patient data,” said Epic executive Sumit Rana in an interview Monday. Disclosing patient records in unfettered fashion can hurt patients, he said. The rule’s promise of eased access to a patient’s entire medical record through an interface is an invitation for app developers — well-funded and sketchy alike — to pick over patient data and commercialize it, he said. In that, he said the proposed rules “go well beyond the 21st Century Cures Act,” which sought to modernize health care with better use of IT.