HHS issues new privacy rule. (Washington Report).(Department of Health and Human Services)

Medical Laboratory Observer | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

The Department of Health and Human Services recently issued the final rule on protecting the confidentiality of patient medical records. As expected, it made some modifications to the regulation originally proposed by the Clinton administration.

While the recently issued regulation will provide a number of new privacy protections, it omits a requirement that a patient's written permission must be obtained before his or her personal health information can be handled by doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and insurance plans.

HHS says it had to make this change ...

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