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Medical Privacy vs. Health Care Quality? HIPAA Privacy Rule Makes It Harder, Costlier to Do Research That Improves Quality of Medical Care, University of Michigan Team Reports.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, May, 2005
Byline: University of Michigan Health System
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research reveals a clash between two of the biggest issues in health care today: protecting individual patients' privacy and improving the quality, safety and cost of medical care for all patients.
In a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center report how their research on heart attack care has been hampered by the national medical privacy regulations under a law known as HIPAA, which took effect two years ago last month.
In all, they write, the changes needed to comply with HIPAA have led to a drastic drop - from 96 percent to 34 percent - in the proportion of heart...
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