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e-health law perspectives Providing Legal Solutions to E-Health Business Problems August 7, 2000 The Emancipation of the Electronic Medical Record– The Overlooked Feature of the E-Signature Law By: Mark Lutes, Esq. Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Washington, D.C. Office mlutes@ebglaw.com The healthcare industry, like other sectors of the economy, is still processing the recent enactment of the Millennium Digital Commerce Act known to the public as the electronic signature law. Electronic signature usage promises, as technology evolves, to be a facilitating device for health care companiesÆ business-to-business and business to consumer transactions. However, the extent of the legal comfort zone will, to some extent, await the maturation and dissemination of encryption technology, biometrics and other electronic security technologies. One application of the Act need not await such maturation– at least from the legal perspective. That application is the lawÆs...

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