HHS appoints Joy Pritts chief privacy officer

I know of Joy Pritts due to her work in Healthcare Privacy. It seems she has the background to do this job. The big question is if this job will be anything other than a figure-head.

The Health and Human Services Department named Joy Pritts, an assistant research professor at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute, as chief privacy officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. More

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