HER system and network have significant implication for health information privacy. In the past, health information privacy. In the past, health information privacy has been protected mainly by chaos. A typical adult patient might have paper records stored in dozens of locations with no way to locate, retrieve, or aggregate the information. Fragmentation is disastrous for achieving continuity of care and satisfactory health outcomes, but it enables health privacy by allowing individuals to control access to their health information through compartmentalization. Furthermore.