[IP] more on As electronic medical records legislation advances, breaches draw scrutiny
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From: "M. Sean Fosmire" <hatgem@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 26, 2006 6:46:39 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] As electronic medical records legislation advances,
breaches draw scrutiny
So far, none of the reports on this new bill have mentioned that
there was a law passed in 1996 that supposedly addressed this issue,
and that the Department of Health and Human Services enacted a
massive set of new regulations in 2000, effective in 2003, all to
"safeguard patient privacy". Ask any doctor what HIPAA means to his
practice. Most likely, he will shake his head and walk away muttering.
In an article that I published in my law firm's newsletter in May
2003, I observed:
As an expression of the irony that seems to permeate Federal law, the
original goal of "simplifying the administration of health insurance"
was accomplished by the adoption of the most massive and confusing
set of regulations seen in health care in the last ten years – and
that is saying quite a lot.
M. Sean Fosmire
hatgem@xxxxxxxxx
Garan Lucow Miller, P.C.
Marquette, Michigan
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On 7/25/06, David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Subject: As
electronic medical records legislation advances, breaches
draw scrutiny
As the House of Representatives hammers out details about what federal
electronic medical records privacy policy (if any) should look like,
and whether it should trump stronger state laws,
( http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=5227 ). . .
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