Saturday, August 10, 2002

Bush Rolls Back Rules on Privacy of Medical Data
The administration decided to abandon the core of the Clinton rules, a requirement that doctors, hospitals and other health care providers obtain written consent from patients before using or disclosing personal medical information for treatment or paying claims. Instead, providers will have to notify patients of their remaining rights and have to make "a good-faith effort to obtain a written acknowledgment of receipt of the notice."

Administration officials made the change despite opposition from consumer advocates, patients' rights groups and psychiatrists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/politics/10PRIV.html

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