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Editorial: Privacy rules still not perfect.(medical records privacy regulations, US)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Business Insurance, August, 2002
The long-awaited final federal medical records privacy regulations have been issued at last, and we'll be the first to admit that they're a marked improvement on the rules issued in the waning days of the Clinton administration. But to say that the Health and Human Services Department's regulations are an improvement doesn't mean they're perfect, despite the fact that both Congress and HHS have been working on them since 1996.
Risk managers and insurers had wanted the final regulations to make clear that they didn't apply to workers compensation. What they got was a little less than that-a statement in the rule's preamble that the standard is not supposed to interfere with workers comp. HHS also promised to monitor implementation of the regulations to ensure...
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